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Each part in itself constitutes the whole to which it belongs.
Jose Saramago
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Jose Saramago
Age: 87 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 16
Died: 2010
Died: June 18
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There are those who deny me the right to speak of God, because I am not a believer. And I say that I have every right in the world. I want to talk about God because it is a problem that affects all humanity.
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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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Earthenware is like people, it needs to be well treated.
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The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.
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Reading is probably another way of being in a place.
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a man was on his way to the gallows when he met another, who asked him: where are you going, my friend? and the condemned man replied: i'm not going anywhere. they're taking me by force.
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A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.
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Chaos is order yet undeciphered.
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The only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards.
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The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. At four o'clock in the morning, when the promise of a new day still lingered over French lands, he got up from his pallet and left for the fields, taking to pasture the half-dozen pigs whose fertility nourished him and his wife.
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We never consider that the things dogs know about us are things of which we have not the faintest notion.
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The beginning is never the clear, precise end of a thread, the beginning is a long, painfully slow process that requires time and patience in order to find out in which direction it is heading, a process that feels its way along the path ahead like a blind man the beginning is just the beginning, what came before is nigh on worthless.
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A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled.
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Age carries with it a double load of guilt.
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all stories are like those about the creation of the universe, no one was there, no one witnessed anything, yet everyone knows what happened.
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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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Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.
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when you are old and realize that time is running out, you start imagining that you have the cure for all the ills of the world in your hand, and get frustrated because no one pays you any attention.
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Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
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The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.
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