Jose Saramago Quotes - Page 7

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• Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.

  Jose Saramago

  Needs, Use, Might

  "The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis". Book by Jose Saramago, 1984.

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• With the passing of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the colour of blood and in the salt of tears, and, as if that were not enough, we made our eyes into a kind of mirror turned inwards, with the result that they often show without reserve what we are verbally trying to deny.

  Jose Saramago

  Eye, Mirrors, Blood

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• If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.

  Jose Saramago

  Animal, Humans, Ifs

  "Blindness" by Jose Saramago, (p. 116), 1995.

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• Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it.

  Jose Saramago

  Secret Places, Secret, Moments

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• Death has no need to be cruel, taking people's lives is more than enough.

  Jose Saramago

  People, Needs, Life Is

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• People might ask me, What do you propose instead? I propose nothing. I am a mere novelist, I just write about the world as I see it. It is not my job to transform it. I cannot transform it all by myself, and I wouldn't even know how to. I limit myself to saying what I believe the world to be.

  Jose Saramago

  Jobs, Believe, Writing

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• The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

  Jose Saramago

  Easter, Military, Uzbekistan

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• We are marching against the law of the jungle that the United States and its acolytes old and new want to impose on the world.

  Jose Saramago

  Law, Usa, Iraq

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• Perfect moments, especially when they verge on the sublime have the grave disadvantage of being very short lived, which in fact, being obvious, we would not need to mention were it not that they have a still greater disadvantage, which is that we do not know what to do once they are over.

  Jose Saramago

  Perfect, Sublime, Needs

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• Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us.

  Jose Saramago

  Faces, Needs, Blame

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• For human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque body from which words are born.

  Jose Saramago

  Light, Shadow, Body

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• There is nothing that is truly free nor democratic enough. Make no mistake, the internet did not come to save the world.

  Jose Saramago

  Mistake, World, Internet

  O Globo Interview, July 2009.

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• Chaos is order yet undeciphered.

  Jose Saramago

  Order, Chaos

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• I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.

  Jose Saramago

  Political, Kind, Imagine

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

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• We never consider that the things dogs know about us are things of which we have not the faintest notion.

  Jose Saramago

  Dog, Notion, Knows

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• a man was on his way to the gallows when he met another, who asked him: where are you going, my friend? and the condemned man replied: i'm not going anywhere. they're taking me by force.

  Jose Saramago

  Men, Way, Mets

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• Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up.

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  Giving Up, Thinking, Law

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• Lord knows why they depict death with wings when death is everywhere.

  Jose Saramago

  Wings, Lord, Knows

  "The Cave" by Jose Saramago, tr. Margaret Jull Costa, Vintage, (p. 112), 2003.

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• The sun appears in one of the upper corners of the rectangle, on the left of anyone looking at the picture.

  Jose Saramago

  Sun, Rectangles, Corners

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• We live in a very peculiar world. Democracy isn't discussed, as if it was taken for granted, as if democracy had taken God's place, who is also not discussed.

  Jose Saramago

  Taken, Democracy, Peculiar

  "The militant magician" by Julian Evans, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2002.

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• When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time.

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  Done, Ends, Said

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• This is the effect of panic, a natural effect, you could say that animal nature is like this, plant life would behave in exactly the same way, too, if it did not have all those roots to hold it in the ground, and how nice it would be to see the trees of the forest fleeing the flames.

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  Nice, Animal, Flames

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• Somewhere in the infinite that He occupies, God advances and withdraws the pawns of the other games He plays, but it is too soon to worry about this one, all He need do for the present is allow things to take their natural course, apart from the occasional adjustment with the tip of His little finger to make sure some stray thought or action does not interfere with the harmony of destinies.

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  Destiny, Games, Play

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• The day before is what we bring to the day we're actually living through, life is a matter of carrying along all those days-before just as someone might carry stones, and when we can no longer cope with the load, the work is done, the last day is the only one that is not the day before another day.

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  Done, Stones, Might

  "A Caverna (The Cave)". Book by Jose Saramago (p. 61), 2002.

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• I don't think it is worth explaining how a character's nose or chin looks. It is my feeling that readers will prefer to construct, little by little, their own character—the author will do well to entrust the reader with this part of the work.

  Jose Saramago

  Character, Thinking, Feelings

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