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A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended (Jose Saramago Quotes)
... 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 Quotes)
When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time (Jose Saramago Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
As so often happens, the thing left undone tires you most of all, you only feel rested when it has been accomplished (Jose Saramago Quotes)
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 Quotes)
... in matters of feeling and of the heart, too much is always better than too little (Jose Saramago Quotes)
If you don’t write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life (Jose Saramago Quotes)
Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat (Jose Saramago Quotes)
... sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things, the distances between them, it separates people and they’re lying next to each other, brings them together and they can barely see one another (Jose Saramago Quotes)
... the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily (Jose Saramago Quotes)
We are so afraid of the idea of having to die… that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn… (Jose Saramago Quotes)
Anyone who gets up early by inclination or has been forced to rise early out of necessity finds it intolerable that others should go on sleeping soundly (Jose Saramago Quotes)
Just like everything else in life, let time take its course and it will find a solution (Jose Saramago Quotes)
The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with God, for he doesn’t understand us, and we don’t understand him (Jose Saramago Quotes)
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 Quotes)
... we confidently say that it’s not worth trying to reach any conclusions merely because we decide to stop halfway along the path that would lead us straight to them (Jose Saramago Quotes)
... the best way of killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud (Jose Saramago Quotes)
... that’s how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both (Jose Saramago Quotes)
There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close (Jose Saramago Quotes)
All stories are like those about the creation of the universe, no one was there, no one witnessed anything, yet everyone knows what happened (Jose Saramago Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
I can’t imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I’m a writer, but I live in this world, and my writing doesn’t exist on a separate level. And if people know who I am and read my books, well, good; that way, if I have something more to say, then everyone benefits (Jose Saramago Quotes)
Not only does the universe have its own laws, all of them indifferent to the contradictory dreams and desires of humanity, and in the formulation of which we contribute not one iota, apart, that is, from the words by which we clumsily name them, but everything seems to indicate that it uses these laws for aims and objectives that transcend and always will transcend our understanding (Jose Saramago Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The minds of human beings are not always entirely at one with the world in which they live, some people have trouble adjusting to reality, basically they’re just weak, confused spirits who use words, sometimes very skillfully, to justify their cowardice (Jose Saramago Quotes)
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 (Jose Saramago Quotes)
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 Quotes)