“... we are only ever pretending to ourselves, never to other people ...” — José Saramago Copy Share Image
I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Death has no need to be cruel, taking people's lives is more than enough. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Blind people do not need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“The time for miracles has either passed or not come yet, besides, miracles, genuine miracles, whatever people say, are not such a… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
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,… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I'm not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
...sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things, the distances between them, it separates people and they're lying next… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world,… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
People might ask me, What do you propose instead? I propose nothing. I am a mere novelist, I just write about the… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Why did we become blind, I don't know, perhaps one day we'll find out, Do you want me to tell you what… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The minds of human beings are not always entirely at one with the world in which they live, some people have trouble… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Very few people are aware that in each of our fingers, located somewhere between the firs phalange, the mesophalange and the metaphalange,… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“We are born, and at that moment, it is as if we had signed a pact for the rest of our life, but a… — José Saramago Copy Share
It takes little or nothing to undo reputations, the merest trifle makes and remakes them, it is simply a question of finding the best… — Jose Saramago Copy Share
With the passage of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the color of… — Jose Saramago Copy Share
“E se as histórias para crianças passassem a ser de leitura obrigatória para os adultos? Seriam eles capazes de aprender realmente o que há… — José Saramago Copy Share
“the inmates of the second ward in the right wing have decided, at long last, to bury their dead, at least we shall be… — José Saramago Copy Share
“Stretching one arm behind him, the man passed his hand over the horse's coat, his own skin transformed, or skin which had transformed into… — José Saramago Copy Share
...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless… — Jose Saramago Copy Share
anyone who gets up early by inclination or has been forced to rise early out of necessity finds it intolerable that others should go… — Jose Saramago Copy Share
Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system… — Jose Saramago Copy Share
“... aborrece os odores nocturnos, aquelas expansões do corpo a que nem poetas escapam".” — José Saramago Copy Share
