Jose Saramago Quotes - Page 2

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• As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

  Jose Saramago

  House, Citizens, Obligation

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

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• Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

  Jose Saramago

  Needs, Bread, Existence

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• Each part in itself constitutes the whole to which it belongs.

  Jose Saramago

  Whole

  "The Cave" by Jose Saramago, tr. Margaret Jull Costa, Vintage, (p. 68), 2003.

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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.

  Jose Saramago

  Goodbye, Gratitude, Grateful

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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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• I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?

  Jose Saramago

  Country, Military, Two

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

  Jose Saramago

  Ends, Dies, Conditions

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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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• If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.

  Jose Saramago

  Book, Writing, Ifs

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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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• Earthenware is like people, it needs to be well treated.

  Jose Saramago

  People, Needs, Wells

  "The Cave". Book by Jose Saramago, 2002.

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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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• 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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• A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled.

  Jose Saramago

  Women, Made, Filled

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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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• Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.

  Jose Saramago

  Men, Order, Given

  "The Cave". Book by Jose Saramago, 2002.

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

  Jose Saramago

  Dignity, Ends, Concessions

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

  Jose Saramago

  Use, Sometimes

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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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• 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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