Jose Saramago Quotes

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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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• 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.

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  Identity, Coherence, Wasting Time

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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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• doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time

  Jose Saramago

  Long, Doubt, Privilege

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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 only miracle we can perform is to go on living, said the woman, to preserve the fragility of life from day to day, as if it were blind and did not know where to go, and perhaps it is like that, perhaps it really does not know, it placed itself in our hands, after giving us intelligence.

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  Hands, Giving, Miracle

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

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• Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.

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  World, Blind, Blindness

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

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

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  Sleep, Cat, Hours

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• blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.

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  Eye, Matter, Born

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• I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

  Jose Saramago

  Travel, Writing, Order

  "A Writer's Progress: An Interview with Nobel Prize-Winning Portuguese Novelist José Saramago". Interview with Anna Klobucka, masshumanities.org. Spring 2002.

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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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• A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.

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  Death, Journey, Ends

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

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  Government, Political, Economic

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• ...sometimes we ask ourselves why happiness took so long to arrive, why it didn't come sooner, but appears suddenly, as now, when we've given up hope of it ever arriving, it's likely then that we won't know what to do, and rather than it being a question of choosing between laughter and tears, we will be filled by a secret anxiety to which we might not know how to respond at all.

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  Laughter, Long, Anxiety

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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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• Blessed be the night, which conceals and protects things fair and foul with the same indifferent mantle.

  Jose Saramago

  Blessed, Night, Foul

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

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  Imf, World, Institutions

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

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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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• but it is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if, before every action, we were to begin weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probably, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt.

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  Moving, Thinking, Firsts

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• We all have our moments of weakness, just as well that we are still capable of weeping, tears are often our salvation, there are times when we would die if we did not weep - Blindness

  Jose Saramago

  Tears, Weakness, Moments

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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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