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• We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations.

  Jose Saramago

  Laughing, Different, Movement

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• The beginning is never the clear, precise end of a thread, the beginning is a long, painfully slow process that requires time and patience in order to find out in which direction it is heading, a process that feels its way along the path ahead like a blind man the beginning is just the beginning, what came before is nigh on worthless.

  Jose Saramago

  Men, Order, Long

  "The Cave" by Jose Saramago, tr. Margaret Jull Costa, Vintage, (p. 54), 2003.

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• The much-quoted immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary occurred but once so that the world might know that Almighty God, when He so chooses, has no need of men, though He cannot dispense with women.

  Jose Saramago

  Women, Needs, World

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• Everything in this world can volunteer some reply, what takes up time is posing the questions.

  Jose Saramago

  Volunteer, World, Posing

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• We've all had our moments of weakness, and if we manage to get through today without any, we'll be sure to have some tomorrow.

  Jose Saramago

  Weakness, Today, Tomorrow

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• Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king.

  Jose Saramago

  Kings, Doe, Monk

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• The ear has to be educated if one wishes to appreciate musical sounds, just as the eyes must learn to distinguish the value of words.

  Jose Saramago

  Eye, Appreciate, Musical

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• Very few people are aware that in each of our fingers, located somewhere between the firs phalange, the mesophalange and the metaphalange, there is a tiny brain... It should be noted that fingers are without brains, these develop gradually with the passage of time and with the help of what the eyes see... That is why the fingers have always excelled at uncovering what is concealed.

  Jose Saramago

  Eye, People, Brain

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

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• Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.

  Jose Saramago

  Luck, Birth, Made

  "Jose Saramago, the Unexpected Fantasist". Interview with Fernanda Eberstadt, www.nytimes.com. August 26, 2007.

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• Unlike Joseph her husband, Mary is neither upright nor pious, but she is not blame for this, the blame lies with the language she speaks if not with the men who invented it, because that language has no feminine form for the words upright and pious.

  Jose Saramago

  Husband, Lying, Men

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• I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.

  Jose Saramago

  Gmos, Receiving, Habit

  "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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• No, there are three people in a marriage, there's the woman, there's the man, and there's what I call the third person, the most important, the person who is composed of the man and woman together.

  Jose Saramago

  Marriage, Men, People

  "All the Names" by Jose Saramago, tr. Margaret Jull Costam London: The Harvill Press, (p. 48), 1999.

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• There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is, and if the book has any kind of message, I suppose that's it.

  Jose Saramago

  World, Reason, Plenty

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

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• It takes little or nothing to undo reputations, the merest trifle makes and remakes them, it is simply a question of finding the best means of engaging the confidence or interest of those who are to become one's unsuspecting echoes or accomplices.

  Jose Saramago

  Mean, Echoes, Littles

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• Americans have discovered fear.

  Jose Saramago

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• You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have

  Jose Saramago

  Names, Given, Knows

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• Yet human experience and the practice of communication have shown throughout the ages that definitions are an illusion, like having a speech defect and trying to say love but unable to get the word out, or, better, having a tongue in one's head but unable to feel love.

  Jose Saramago

  Love, Communication, Practice

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• In general, fakirs, like scribes and potters, are sitting down, when he's standing up, a fakir is just like an other man, and sitting down, he'll be smaller than the others.

  Jose Saramago

  Men, Sitting Down, Potters

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

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• Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.

  Jose Saramago

  Fragility, World, Intensity

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• Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.

  Jose Saramago

  Jobs, Literature, Possibility

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• Sometimes I say that writing a novel is the same as constructing a chair: a person must be able to sit in it, to be balanced on it. If I can produce a great chair, even better. But above all I have to make sure that it has four stable feet.

  Jose Saramago

  Writing, Feet, Able

  "Interview with Katherine Vaz". BOMB Magazine, June 2001.

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• Life is like that, full of words that are not worth saying or that were worth saying once but not any more, each word that we utter will take up the space of another more deserving word, not deserving in its own right, but because of the possible consequences of saying it.

  Jose Saramago

  Space, Life Is Like, Deserving

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

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• A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book, when I finished: 'This is a book about Alentejo.'

  Jose Saramago

  Dream, Book, Men

  "Jose Saramago: il bagaglio dello scrittore". Book by Giulia Lanciani, translated (p. 41), 1996.

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• This must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say so, and yet unable to see it.

  Jose Saramago

  Mean, Four, Ghost

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• The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

  Jose Saramago

  Space, Genre Is, Literary Genre

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

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