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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• Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered

  Jose Saramago

  Order, Perspective, Waiting

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

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• A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.

  Jose Saramago

  Death, Journey, Ends

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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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• 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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• Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions. Decisions make us.

  Jose Saramago

  Decision

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

  Jose Saramago

  Sleep, Cat, Hours

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• Each day is a little bit of history

  Jose Saramago

  Each Day, Littles, Bits

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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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• People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

  Jose Saramago

  Reality, Government, Hymns

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

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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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• If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?

  Jose Saramago

  Regret, Today, Does It Matter

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

  Jose Saramago

  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.

  Jose Saramago

  Angel, Men, Wings

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

  Jose Saramago

  Yesterday, Doe, Today

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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.

  Jose Saramago

  Rose, Promise, Bud

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

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

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  Use, Sometimes

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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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