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• In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.

  Jose Saramago

  Writing, Novelists, Essays

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• Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?

  Jose Saramago

  Military, Land, Flags

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• I believe myself to be the type of person who does not complicate his life. I have always lived my life without dramatizing things, whether the good things that have happened to me or the bad. I simply live those moments.

  Jose Saramago

  Believe, Doe, Moments

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• For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have nothing to do with each other. I arrange words one after another, or one in front of another, to tell a story, to say something that I consider important or useful, or at least important or useful to me. It is nothing more than this.

  Jose Saramago

  Jobs, Writing, Two

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Jose Saramago

  Moving, Thinking, Firsts

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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.

  Jose Saramago

  Hands, Giving, Miracle

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• Death ... doesn't take her eyes off us for a minute, so much so that even those who are not yet due to die feel her gaze pursuing them constantly.

  Jose Saramago

  Death, Eye, Minutes

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• That is the dream of all novelists-that one of their characters will become 'somebody.'

  Jose Saramago

  Dream, Character, Novelists

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• I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.

  Jose Saramago

  Writing, Secret, Ifs

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• Every thing in life is a uniform; the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked.

  Jose Saramago

  Things In Life, Dresses, Naked

  "All the Names" by Jose Saramago, tr. Margaret Jull Costam London: The Harvill Press, (p. 92), 2003.

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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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• When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.

  Jose Saramago

  Writing, Example, Novel

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• You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.

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  Winning, Hands, Gambling

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• We say Fine, even though we may be dying, and this is commonly known as taking one's courage in both hands, a phenomenon that has only been observed in the human species.

  Jose Saramago

  Hands, Dying, May

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

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• There are those who deny me the right to speak of God, because I am not a believer. And I say that I have every right in the world. I want to talk about God because it is a problem that affects all humanity.

  Jose Saramago

  Humanity, Want, World

  "'La muerte es la inventora de Dios'". Interview with Francesc Relea, elpais.com. October 17, 2009.

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• . . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism; optimists will never change the world for the better.

  Jose Saramago

  Done, World, Way

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• En ningún momento de la historia, en ningún lugar del planeta, las religiones han servido para que los seres humanos se acerquen unos a los otros. Por el contrario, sólo han servido para separar, para quemar, para torturar. No creo en dios, no lo necesito y además soy buena persona.

  Jose Saramago

  Atheist, Dio, Soy

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• Blind people do not need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters.

  Jose Saramago

  Names, Voice, People

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

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• The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.

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  Wise, Men, Contentment

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• There is relationship between sight and touch, something about eyes being able to see through the fingers touching the clay, about fingers being able to feel what the eyes are seeing without the fingers actually touching it.

  Jose Saramago

  Eye, Sight, Touching

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

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• In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don't talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer's block, all those things that we hear about writers.

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  Block, Writing, Creating

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• From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything is discussed in our world. But the democratic system, as if it were a given fact, untouchable by nature until the end of time, we don't discuss that.

  Jose Saramago

  Garbage Disposal, Our World, Jam

  Jose Saramago's intervention in the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, February 1992.

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• It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene.

  Jose Saramago

  Hunger, Pornography, Obscene

  Interview with Jose Eugenio "Jo" Soares on "Jo Soares Eleven Thirty", 1997.

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