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Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
José Saramago
Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.
José Saramago
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.
José Saramago
If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.
José Saramago
The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.
José Saramago
Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.
José Saramago
There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.
José Saramago
From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything is discussed in our world. But the democratic system, as if it were a given fact, untouchable by nature until the end of time, we don't discuss that.
José Saramago
No, there are three people in a marriage, there's the woman, there's the man, and there's what I call the third person, the most important, the person who is composed of the man and woman together.
José Saramago
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.
José Saramago
I'm not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where people live so badly, nature is being destroyed and the dominant empire is money?
José Saramago
Doesn't anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer?
José Saramago
A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book, when I finished: 'This is a book about Alentejo.'
José Saramago
Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.
José Saramago
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.
José Saramago
The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.
José Saramago
Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.
José Saramago
Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard.
José Saramago
Death is the inventor of God.
José Saramago
Creating is always so much more stimulating than destroying.
José Saramago
Human nature is, by definition, a talkative one, imprudent, indiscreet, gossipy, incapable of closing its mouth and keeping it closed.
José Saramago
Each part in itself constitutes the whole to which it belongs.
José Saramago
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