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I believe that I’ve been asked all possible questions. I, myself, if I were a journalist, would not know what to ask me (Jose Saramago Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people (Jose Saramago Quotes)
It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power (Jose Saramago Quotes)
People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it’s only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich (Jose Saramago Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers (Jose Saramago Quotes)
There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything (Jose Saramago Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Death is present every day in our lives. It’s not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life (Jose Saramago Quotes)
I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year (Jose Saramago Quotes)
The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because of the fact that one is an artist, but because we are citizens (Jose Saramago Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The sun appears in one of the upper corners of the rectangle, on the left of anyone looking at the picture (Jose Saramago Quotes)
Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins (Jose Saramago Quotes)
... 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 Quotes)
... this is the way fate usually treats us, it’s right there behind us, it has already reached out a hand to touch us on the shoulder while we’re still muttering to ourselves, It’s all over, that’s it, who cares anyhow (Jose Saramago Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born (Jose Saramago Quotes)
... the habit of falling hardens the body, reaching the ground, to in itself, is a relief (Jose Saramago Quotes)
You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have (Jose Saramago Quotes)
Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas (Jose Saramago Quotes)
With the passage of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the color of our blood and the salt of our tears (Jose Saramago Quotes)
We never consider that the things dogs know about us are things of which we have not the faintest notion (Jose Saramago Quotes)
The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein (Jose Saramago Quotes)
Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king (Jose Saramago Quotes)