Jose Saramago Quotes

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• Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.

  Jose Saramago

  Heart, Eye, Caught

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• Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

  Jose Saramago

  Names, Soul, Determined

  "Blindness". Book by Jose Saramago, October 1997.

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• Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered

  Jose Saramago

  Order, Perspective, Waiting

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• The worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing you can do about it, They say that time heals all wounds, But we never live long enough to test that theory.

  Jose Saramago

  Pain, Long, Tests

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• We can escape from everything, but not from ourselves.

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• No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.

  Jose Saramago

  Good Night, Dream, Desire

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• Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters...

  Jose Saramago

  Inspirational, Life, Reading

  "The Cave" by Jose Saramago, tr. Margaret Jull Costa, Vintage, (p. 60), 2003.

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• Each day is a little bit of history

  Jose Saramago

  Each Day, Littles, Bits

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• A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.

  Jose Saramago

  Death, Journey, Ends

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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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• I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.

  Jose Saramago

  Thinking, People, Blind

  "Blindness" by Jose Saramago, (p. 326), 1995.

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• There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close.

  Jose Saramago

  Doors, Order, Choices

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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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• Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.

  Jose Saramago

  Forgive Me, Forgiving, Littles

  Jose Saramago's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 7, 1998.

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• The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.

  Jose Saramago

  People, Understanding, Difficult

  "Blindness" by Jose Saramago, (p. 284), 1995.

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• Men are angels born without wings, nothing could be nicer than to be born without wings and to make them grow.

  Jose Saramago

  Angel, Men, Wings

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• There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs.

  Jose Saramago

  Men, Two, Legs

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• Even death, faced with the option of death or life, she would choose life.

  Jose Saramago

  Choose Life

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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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• 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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• 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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  Doe, Machines, Mars

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Jose Saramago

  Evil, Heaven, Islam

  "'La muerte es la inventora de Dios'". Interview with Francesc Relea, elpais.com. October 17, 2009.

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