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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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Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico
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Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.
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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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A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.
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The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he doesn't understand us, and we don't understand him.
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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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The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.
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Blessed be the night, which conceals and protects things fair and foul with the same indifferent mantle.
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With the passing of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the colour of blood and in the salt of tears, and, as if that were not enough, we made our eyes into a kind of mirror turned inwards, with the result that they often show without reserve what we are verbally trying to deny.
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Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions. Decisions make us.
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You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have
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When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.
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Every second that passes is like a door that opens to allow in what has not yet happened, what we call the future, but, to challenge the contradictory nature of what we have just said, perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the future is just an immense void, that the future is just the time on which the eternal present feeds.
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just like everything else in life, let time take its course and it will find a solution.
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The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.
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The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.
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En ningún momento de la historia, en ningún lugar del planeta, las religiones han servido para que los seres humanos se acerquen unos a los otros. Por el contrario, sólo han servido para separar, para quemar, para torturar. No creo en dios, no lo necesito y además soy buena persona.
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we would understand much more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting time on identities and coherences, seeing as these have a duty to provide their own explanations.
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We've all had our moments of weakness, and if we manage to get through today without any, we'll be sure to have some tomorrow.
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The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith.
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I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?
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