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That it's possible not to see a lie even when it's in front of us.
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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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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There is relationship between sight and touch, something about eyes being able to see through the fingers touching the clay, about fingers being able to feel what the eyes are seeing without the fingers actually touching it.
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Chaos is order yet undeciphered.
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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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blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.
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As so often happens, the thing left undone tires you most of all, you only feel rested when it has been accomplished.
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Death has no need to be cruel, taking people's lives is more than enough.
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Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.
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Nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction.
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Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us.
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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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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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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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It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.
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