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The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.
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
Jose Saramago
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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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There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is, and if the book has any kind of message, I suppose that's it.
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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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There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.
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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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We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.
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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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just like everything else in life, let time take its course and it will find a solution.
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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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Death ... doesn't take her eyes off us for a minute, so much so that even those who are not yet due to die feel her gaze pursuing them constantly.
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One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.
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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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Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions. Decisions make us.
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Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.
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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 attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.
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What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?
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For human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque body from which words are born.
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Sometimes I say that writing a novel is the same as constructing a chair: a person must be able to sit in it, to be balanced on it. If I can produce a great chair, even better. But above all I have to make sure that it has four stable feet.
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