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That is the dream of all novelists-that one of their characters will become 'somebody.'
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
Jose Saramago
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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 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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As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping.
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just like everything else in life, let time take its course and it will find a solution.
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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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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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We live in a very peculiar world. Democracy isn't discussed, as if it was taken for granted, as if democracy had taken God's place, who is also not discussed.
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Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.
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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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Each day is a little bit of history
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Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.
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In a king, modesty would be a sign of weakness.
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We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.
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A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.
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Each part in itself constitutes the whole to which it belongs.
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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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Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.
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Why did we become blind, I don't know, perhaps one day we'll find out, Do you want me to tell you what I think, Yes, do, I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.
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Nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction.
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