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Sometimes I say that writing ...

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 218 quotes

We've all had our moments of ...

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 218 quotes

For me, writing is a job. I d...

For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have nothing to do with each other. I arrange words one after another, or one in front of another, to tell a story, to say something that I consider important or useful, or at least important or useful to me. It is nothing more than this.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

Often when you ask for one th...

Often when you ask for one thing you receive another, this is the mysterious thing about prayer, we address them to heaven with some private intention, but they choose their own path, sometimes they delay, allowing other prayers to overtake them, frequently they overlap and become hybrid prayers of dubious origin, which quarrel and argue among themselves.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

A tree weeps when cut down, a...

A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

We know that happiness is sho...

We know that happiness is short-lived, that we fail to cherish it when it is within our grasp and value it only when it has vanished forever.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

Everything in this world can ...

Everything in this world can volunteer some reply, what takes up time is posing the questions.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

but it is also true, if this ...

but it is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if, before every action, we were to begin weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probably, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

Lord knows why they depict de...

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

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

Each part in itself constitut...

Each part in itself constitutes the whole to which it belongs.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

Unlike Joseph her husband, Ma...

Unlike Joseph her husband, Mary is neither upright nor pious, but she is not blame for this, the blame lies with the language she speaks if not with the men who invented it, because that language has no feminine form for the words upright and pious.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

Don't be afraid, the darkness...

Don't be afraid, the darkness you're in is no greater than the darkness inside your own body, they are two darknesses separated by a skin, I bet you've never thought of that, you carry a darkness about with you all the time and that doesn't frighten you...my dear chap, you have to learn to live with the darkness outside just as you learned to live with the darkness inside

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

a man was on his way to the g...

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 218 quotes

Every second that passes is l...

Every second that passes is like a door that opens to allow in what has not yet happened, what we call the future, but, to challenge the contradictory nature of what we have just said, perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the future is just an immense void, that the future is just the time on which the eternal present feeds.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

Words have their own hierarch...

Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

Globalization is a form of to...

Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

En ning?n momento de la histo...

En ning?n momento de la historia, en ning?n lugar del planeta, las religiones han servido para que los seres humanos se acerquen unos a los otros. Por el contrario, s?lo han servido para separar, para quemar, para torturar. No creo en dios, no lo necesito y adem?s soy buena persona.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

Life is like that, full of wo...

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 218 quotes

Yet human experience and the ...

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 218 quotes

This is the effect of panic, ...

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 218 quotes

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