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Chaos is order yet undeciphered.
Jose Saramago
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Jose Saramago
Age: 87 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 16
Died: 2010
Died: June 18
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Doesn't anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer?
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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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Blessed be the night, which conceals and protects things fair and foul with the same indifferent mantle.
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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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Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.
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The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.
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It takes little or nothing to undo reputations, the merest trifle makes and remakes them, it is simply a question of finding the best means of engaging the confidence or interest of those who are to become one's unsuspecting echoes or accomplices.
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Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets.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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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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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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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 ... 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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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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blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.
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This is the effect of panic, a natural effect, you could say that animal nature is like this, plant life would behave in exactly the same way, too, if it did not have all those roots to hold it in the ground, and how nice it would be to see the trees of the forest fleeing the flames.
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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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