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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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Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico
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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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God, the devil, good, evil, it's all in our heads, not in Heaven or Hell, which we also invented. We do not realize that, having invented God, we immediately became His slaves.
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In a king, modesty would be a sign of weakness.
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The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.
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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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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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No, there are three people in a marriage, there's the woman, there's the man, and there's what I call the third person, the most important, the person who is composed of the man and woman together.
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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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Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.
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... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.
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Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.
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There are those who deny me the right to speak of God, because I am not a believer. And I say that I have every right in the world. I want to talk about God because it is a problem that affects all humanity.
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You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have
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...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless we escape from ourselves you mean, No, that's not the same thing.
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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 is the inventor of God.
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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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Blind people do not need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters.
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. . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism optimists will never change the world for the better.
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Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can.
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