Jose Saramago Quotes

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

  Jose Saramago

  Rose, Promise, Bud

  "The Cave" by Jose Saramago, tr. Margaret Jull Costa, Vintage, (p. 89), 2003.

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

  Jose Saramago

  Dog, Cutting, Men

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• Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

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  Names, Soul, Determined

  "Blindness". Book by Jose Saramago, October 1997.

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• Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.

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  Heart, Eye, Caught

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

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  Decision

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• Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters...

  Jose Saramago

  Inspirational, Life, Reading

  "The Cave" by Jose Saramago, tr. Margaret Jull Costa, Vintage, (p. 60), 2003.

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• Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered

  Jose Saramago

  Order, Perspective, Waiting

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• We can escape from everything, but not from ourselves.

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• The worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing you can do about it, They say that time heals all wounds, But we never live long enough to test that theory.

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  Pain, Long, Tests

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• A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.

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  Death, Journey, Ends

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

  Jose Saramago

  Sleep, Cat, Hours

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• 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

  Reality, Government, Hymns

  "Still a street-fighting man". Interview with Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2006.

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• The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.

  Jose Saramago

  Writing, Men, Wisest Man

  "How Characters Became the Masters and the Author Their Apprentice". Jose Saramago's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 7, 1998.

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• The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.

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  People, Understanding, Difficult

  "Blindness" by Jose Saramago, (p. 284), 1995.

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• No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.

  Jose Saramago

  Good Night, Dream, Desire

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• Each day is a little bit of history

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  Each Day, Littles, Bits

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• There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close.

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  Doors, Order, Choices

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• If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?

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  Regret, Today, Does It Matter

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

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  Law, Silence, Should

  "Todos os Nomes (All the Names)". Book by Jose Saramago translated by Margaret Jull Costa, 1999.

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• Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.

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  Forgive Me, Forgiving, Littles

  Jose Saramago's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 7, 1998.

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• What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

  Jose Saramago

  Doe, Machines, Mars

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• Earthenware is like people, it needs to be well treated.

  Jose Saramago

  People, Needs, Wells

  "The Cave". Book by Jose Saramago, 2002.

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

  Jose Saramago

  Angel, Men, Wings

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• In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

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  Ends, Dies, Conditions

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• Your questions are false if you already know the answer.

  Jose Saramago

  Answers, Knows, Ifs

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