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It is strange how the elderly...

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 218 quotes

People live with the illusion...

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 218 quotes

I am traveling less in order ...

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

I believe myself to be the ty...

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 218 quotes

At the end of the 1950s, I st...

At the end of the 1950s, I started working at a publishing company, Estudios Cor, as production manager, so returning, but not as an author, to the world of letters I had left some years before.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

just like everything else in ...

just like everything else in life, let time take its course and it will find a solution.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

But truths need to be repeate...

But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

Even death, faced with the op...

Even death, faced with the option of death or life, she would choose life.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

As my cat would say, all hour...

As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

If you don't write your books...

If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

Strictly speaking, we do not ...

Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions. Decisions make us.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

The wisest man I ever knew in...

The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. At four o'clock in the morning, when the promise of a new day still lingered over French lands, he got up from his pallet and left for the fields, taking to pasture the half-dozen pigs whose fertility nourished him and his wife.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

all stories are like those ab...

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 218 quotes

I think we are blind, Blind b...

I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

Whether we like it or not, th...

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 218 quotes

Not only does the universe ha...

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 218 quotes

We use words to understand ea...

We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

The best way to killing a ros...

The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

Dignity has no price ... when...

Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

when you are old and realize ...

when you are old and realize that time is running out, you start imagining that you have the cure for all the ills of the world in your hand, and get frustrated because no one pays you any attention.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

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