Jose Saramago Quotes - Page 3

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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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• One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger.

  Jose Saramago

  Stranger, Shows, Greater

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• just like everything else in life, let time take its course and it will find a solution.

  Jose Saramago

  Courses, Solutions

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• Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying that you understand your responsibility, you have a political conscience and you came to vote, but you don't agree with any of the existing parties and this is the only way you have of saying so.

  Jose Saramago

  Beach, Party, Mean

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

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• The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.

  Jose Saramago

  Dream, Impossible, Illusion

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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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• Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.

  Jose Saramago

  Vocabulary, Knowing, Communicate

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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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• ... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.

  Jose Saramago

  Heart, Enough, Should

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• When we are born, when we enter this world, it is as if we signed a pact for the rest of our life, but a day may come when we will ask ourselves Who signed this on my behalf?

  Jose Saramago

  World, May, Born

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• Every second that passes is like a door that opens to allow in what has not yet happened, what we call the future, but, to challenge the contradictory nature of what we have just said, perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the future is just an immense void, that the future is just the time on which the eternal present feeds.

  Jose Saramago

  Doors, Challenges, Void

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• A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little.

  Jose Saramago

  Littles, Hunger, Stomach

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• ...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless we escape from ourselves you mean, No, that's not the same thing.

  Jose Saramago

  Mean, Islands, Order

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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 wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. At four o'clock in the morning, when the promise of a new day still lingered over French lands, he got up from his pallet and left for the fields, taking to pasture the half-dozen pigs whose fertility nourished him and his wife.

  Jose Saramago

  Morning, Writing, Men

  "Portuguese writer Jose Saramago, winner of 1998 Nobel, dies". www.cnn.com. June 18, 2010.

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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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• Why did we become blind, I don't know, perhaps one day we'll find out, Do you want me to tell you what I think, Yes, do, I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.

  Jose Saramago

  Thinking, People, One Day

  "Portuguese writer Jose Saramago, winner of 1998 Nobel, dies", www.cnn.com. June 18, 2010.

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• Reading is probably another way of being in a place.

  Jose Saramago

  Reading, Way, Another Way

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• The only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards.

  Jose Saramago

  Alive, Only Time

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

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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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• It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from scratch.

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  Fall, Elderly, Scratches

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• Writer's make national literature, while translators make universal literature.

  Jose Saramago

  Literature, Translators, Universal

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

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  Needs, Lapses, Oblivion

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• Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.

  Jose Saramago

  Liking Someone, Ownership, Form

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

  Jose Saramago

  World, Blind, Blindness

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

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