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Blind people do not need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters.
Jose Saramago
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Jose Saramago
Age: 87 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 16
Died: 2010
Died: June 18
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The only miracle we can perform is to go on living, said the woman, to preserve the fragility of life from day to day, as if it were blind and did not know where to go, and perhaps it is like that, perhaps it really does not know, it placed itself in our hands, after giving us intelligence.
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Every thing in life is a uniform the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked.
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One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.
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Reading is probably another way of being in a place.
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It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.
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Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.
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We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.
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... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.
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There is nothing that is truly free nor democratic enough. Make no mistake, the internet did not come to save the world.
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If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?
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Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins.
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We live in a very peculiar world. Democracy isn't discussed, as if it was taken for granted, as if democracy had taken God's place, who is also not discussed.
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I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.
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. . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism optimists will never change the world for the better.
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If I could repeat my childhood, I would repeat it exactly as it was, with the poverty, the cold, little food, with the flies and pigs, all that.
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The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein.
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I don't doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I'm convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him.
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Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.
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The sun appears in one of the upper corners of the rectangle, on the left of anyone looking at the picture.
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The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.
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