Jose Saramago Quotes

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

  Jose Saramago

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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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• 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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• 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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• Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered

  Jose Saramago

  Order, Perspective, Waiting

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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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• A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.

  Jose Saramago

  Death, Journey, Ends

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

  Jose Saramago

  Choose Life

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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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• As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping.

  Jose Saramago

  Sleep, Cat, Hours

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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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• It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

  Jose Saramago

  Government, Political, Economic

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

  Jose Saramago

  Answers, Knows, Ifs

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• But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion.

  Jose Saramago

  Needs, Lapses, Oblivion

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

  Jose Saramago

  Use, Sometimes

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