Jose Saramago Quotes - Page 2

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• As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

  Jose Saramago

  House, Citizens, Obligation

  "Still a street-fighting man". Interview with Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2006.

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• The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.

  Jose Saramago

  Writing, Men, Wisest Man

  "How Characters Became the Masters and the Author Their Apprentice". Jose Saramago's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 7, 1998.

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• Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.

  Jose Saramago

  Law, Silence, Should

  "Todos os Nomes (All the Names)". Book by Jose Saramago translated by Margaret Jull Costa, 1999.

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• The only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards.

  Jose Saramago

  Alive, Only Time

  "The Cave". Book by Jose Saramago, 2002.

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• Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

  Jose Saramago

  Needs, Bread, Existence

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• Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can.

  Jose Saramago

  Rich, Poor, Globalization

  Interview with Edney Silvestre, 2007.

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• Jeronimo, my grandfather, swine-herder and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the trees in the yard, one by one, embracing them and crying because he knew he wouldn't see them again. To truly appreciate life we must remember that nothing lasts for ever and take nothing we enjoy for granted. In so doing we stay grateful and happy for all our good fortune.

  Jose Saramago

  Goodbye, Gratitude, Grateful

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• Doesn't anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer?

  Jose Saramago

  Names, Killing, Murderer

  Interview with Edney Silvestre, 2007.

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• Every second that passes is like a door that opens to allow in what has not yet happened, what we call the future, but, to challenge the contradictory nature of what we have just said, perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the future is just an immense void, that the future is just the time on which the eternal present feeds.

  Jose Saramago

  Doors, Challenges, Void

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• That it's possible not to see a lie even when it's in front of us.

  Jose Saramago

  Lying, Fronts

  "All the Names" by Jose Saramago, tr. Margaret Jull Costam London: The Harvill Press, (p. 210), 1999.

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• The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

  Jose Saramago

  Imf, World, Institutions

  "Still a street-fighting man". Interview with Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2006.

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• Today's bread does not eliminate yesterday's hunger, much less that of tomorrow.

  Jose Saramago

  Yesterday, Doe, Today

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• A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

  Jose Saramago

  Fashion, Construction, Destruction

  "Interview with Jose Saramago, Author of Blindness". Political Affairs Magazine Interview, www.politicalaffairs.net. March 2006.

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• If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.

  Jose Saramago

  Book, Writing, Ifs

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• There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

  Jose Saramago

  Contentment, Loses

  "The Double". Book by Jose Saramago, 2004.

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• We are finally living in Plato's cave, if we consider how those who were imprisoned within the cave - who could do nothing but watch those shadows passing on the back wall - were convinced that those shadows were their one and only reality. I see a profound similarity to all this in the epoch we're now living in. We no longer live simply through images: we live through images that don't even exist, which are the result not of physical projection but of pure virtuality.

  Jose Saramago

  Wall, Plato, Reality

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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.

  Jose Saramago

  Identity, Coherence, Wasting Time

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• Men are all the same, they think that because they came out of the belly of a woman they know all there is to know about women.

  Jose Saramago

  Men, Thinking, Belly

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• A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled.

  Jose Saramago

  Women, Made, Filled

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• One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger.

  Jose Saramago

  Stranger, Shows, Greater

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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.

  Jose Saramago

  Morning, Writing, Men

  "Portuguese writer Jose Saramago, winner of 1998 Nobel, dies". www.cnn.com. June 18, 2010.

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• We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.

  Jose Saramago

  Use, Sometimes

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• Creating is always so much more stimulating than destroying.

  Jose Saramago

  Creating, Destroying

  "The Cave" by Jose Saramago, tr. Margaret Jull Costa, Vintage, (p. 107), 2003.

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• When we are born, when we enter this world, it is as if we signed a pact for the rest of our life, but a day may come when we will ask ourselves Who signed this on my behalf?

  Jose Saramago

  World, May, Born

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• just like everything else in life, let time take its course and it will find a solution.

  Jose Saramago

  Courses, Solutions

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