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Age carries with it a double load of guilt.
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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One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.
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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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When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time.
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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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The ear has to be educated if one wishes to appreciate musical sounds, just as the eyes must learn to distinguish the value of words.
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Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.
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but it is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if, before every action, we were to begin weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probably, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt.
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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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I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.
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The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.
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The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
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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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A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled.
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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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Death has no need to be cruel, taking people's lives is more than enough.
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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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