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Chaos is order yet undeciphered.

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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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but it is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if, before every action, we were to begin weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probably, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt.
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You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have
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A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.
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I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.
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The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.
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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 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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As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping.
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The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.
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Death has no need to be cruel, taking people's lives is more than enough.
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when you are old and realize that time is running out, you start imagining that you have the cure for all the ills of the world in your hand, and get frustrated because no one pays you any attention.
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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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Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.
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We say Fine, even though we may be dying, and this is commonly known as taking one's courage in both hands, a phenomenon that has only been observed in the human species.
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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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The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.
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We never consider that the things dogs know about us are things of which we have not the faintest notion.
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In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.
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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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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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