Jose Saramago Quotes - Page 9

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• 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

  Mean, Order, Ideas

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• If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.

  Jose Saramago

  Animal, Humans, Ifs

  "Blindness" by Jose Saramago, (p. 116), 1995.

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• I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

  Jose Saramago

  Novelists, Poetic, Playwright

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• If I could repeat my childhood, I would repeat it exactly as it was, with the poverty, the cold, little food, with the flies and pigs, all that.

  Jose Saramago

  Pigs, Childhood, Littles

  Interview with Edney Silvestre, 2007.

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• The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein.

  Jose Saramago

  Space, Done, Maps

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• ...we confidently say that it's not worth trying to reach any conclusions merely because we decide to stop halfway along the path that would lead us straight to them.

  Jose Saramago

  Fear, Trying, Path

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• I consider books to be good for our health, and also our spirits, and they help us to become poets or scientists, to understand the stars or else to discover them deep within the aspirations of certain characters, those who sometimes, on certain evenings, escape from the pages and walk among us humans, perhaps the most human of us all.

  Jose Saramago

  Stars, Book, Character

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• With the passing of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the colour of blood and in the salt of tears, and, as if that were not enough, we made our eyes into a kind of mirror turned inwards, with the result that they often show without reserve what we are verbally trying to deny.

  Jose Saramago

  Eye, Mirrors, Blood

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• With the passage of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the color of our blood and the salt of our tears.

  Jose Saramago

  Blood, Color, Tears

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