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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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I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.
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Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up.
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Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning.
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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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I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.
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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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Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the proper legal time.
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If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.
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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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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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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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