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We can escape from everything,...

We can escape from everything, but not from ourselves.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

Death has no need to be cruel,...

Death has no need to be cruel, taking people's lives is more than enough.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

The much-quoted immaculate con...

The much-quoted immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary occurred but once so that the world might know that Almighty God, when He so chooses, has no need of men, though He cannot dispense with women.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

A woman is essentially a vesse...

A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

There is nothing healthier for...

There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

It takes little or nothing to ...

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 218 quotes

Everything in this world can v...

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

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

Blessed be the night, which co...

Blessed be the night, which conceals and protects things fair and foul with the same indifferent mantle.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

The time for miracles has eith...

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 218 quotes

Men are angels born without wi...

Men are angels born without wings, nothing could be nicer than to be born without wings and to make them grow.

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

Very few people are aware that...

Very few people are aware that in each of our fingers, located somewhere between the firs phalange, the mesophalange and the metaphalange, there is a tiny brain. [...] It should be noted that fingers are without brains, these develop gradually with the passage of time and with the help of what the eyes see.... That is why the fingers have always excelled at uncovering what is concealed.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

But truths need to be repeated...

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

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

The beginning is never the cle...

The beginning is never the clear, precise end of a thread, the beginning is a long, painfully slow process that requires time and patience in order to find out in which direction it is heading, a process that feels its way along the path ahead like a blind man the beginning is just the beginning, what came before is nigh on worthless.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

Consciences keep silence more ...

Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

The wise man contents himself ...

The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

Death ... doesn't take her eye...

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 218 quotes

We know that happiness is shor...

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

I don't doubt that a man can l...

I don't doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I'm convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

A stomach accustomed to hunger...

A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

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