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.

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  Heart, Eye, Caught

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• Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered

  Jose Saramago

  Order, Perspective, Waiting

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

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  Names, Soul, Determined

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

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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.

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  Pain, Long, Tests

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

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

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  People, Understanding, Difficult

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

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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.

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  Goodbye, Gratitude, Grateful

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• A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.

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  Death, Journey, Ends

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

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  Good Night, Dream, Desire

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• Each day is a little bit of history

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  Each Day, Littles, Bits

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• Your questions are false if you already know the answer.

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  Answers, Knows, Ifs

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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.

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  Angel, Men, Wings

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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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  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.

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  Doors, Order, Choices

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

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  Use, Sometimes

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• Creating is always so much more stimulating than destroying.

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  Creating, Destroying

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

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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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• Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning.

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  Dignity, Ends, Concessions

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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.

  Jose Saramago

  Running, Hands, Frustrated

  "All the Names" by Jose Saramago, tr. Margaret Jull Costam London: The Harvill Press, (p. 172), 1999.

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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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  Rose, Promise, Bud

  "The Cave" by Jose Saramago, tr. Margaret Jull Costa, Vintage, (p. 89), 2003.

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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.

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  Men, Thinking, Belly

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

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  Forgive Me, Forgiving, Littles

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

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• In matters of feeling and of the heart, too much is always better than too little.

  Jose Saramago

  Heart, Feelings, Matter

  "The Cave" by Jose Saramago, tr. Margaret Jull Costa, Vintage, (p. 69), 2003.

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