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At this time of life even a day makes a difference, the only saving grace is that sometimes things improve (Jose Saramago Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Because contrary to what people say, two weaknesses don't make for a still greater weakness, but for renewed strength (Jose Saramago Quotes)
The emptiness of old age had caused him to forget that, in matters of feeling and of the heart, too much is always better than too little (Jose Saramago Quotes)
He felt very tired, not from the mental effort, but because he had suddenly seen what the world was like, how there are many lies and truths (Jose Saramago Quotes)
After all, we are always on time, behind time, in time, but never out of time, no matter how often we are told that we are (Jose Saramago Quotes)
Don't quibble with the king over pears, let him eat the ripe ones and give you the green ones (Jose Saramago Quotes)
The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud (Jose Saramago Quotes)
Every thing in life is a uniform; the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked (Jose Saramago Quotes)
Human nature is, by definition, a talkative one, imprudent, indiscreet, gossipy, incapable of closing it's mouth and keeping it closed (Jose Saramago Quotes)
The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better (Jose Saramago Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Dignity has no price... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning (Jose Saramago Quotes)
No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all (Jose Saramago Quotes)
The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith (Jose Saramago Quotes)
Men are angels born without wings, nothing could be nicer than to be born without wings and to make them grow (Jose Saramago Quotes)
The time for miracles has either passed or not come yet, besides, miracles, genuine miracles, whatever people say, are not such a good idea, if it means destroying the very order of things in order to improve them (Jose Saramago Quotes)
Blessed be the night, which conceals and protects things fair and foul with the same indifferent mantle (Jose Saramago Quotes)
Everything in this world can volunteer some reply, what takes up time is posing the questions (Jose Saramago Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Death has no need to be cruel, taking people’s lives is more than enough (Jose Saramago Quotes)
Today’s bread does not eliminate yesterday’s hunger, much less that of tomorrow (Jose Saramago Quotes)
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 Quotes)
It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from scratch (Jose Saramago Quotes)
Ah, in every age there is always some new wonder to astound mankind until they grow accustomed to it and lose interest (Jose Saramago Quotes)
There is nothing that is truly free nor democratic enough. Make no mistake, the internet did not come to save the world (Jose Saramago Quotes)
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 Quotes)
If I could repeat my childhood, I would repeat it exactly as it was, with the poverty, the cold, little food, with the flies and pigs, all that (Jose Saramago Quotes)
Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can (Jose Saramago Quotes)
I’m not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where people live so badly, nature is being destroyed and the dominant empire is money? (Jose Saramago Quotes)