“We all know, however, that the enormous weight of tradition, habit, and custom that occupies the greater part of our brain bears… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“A person is not like a thing that you put down in one place and leave, a person moves, thinks, asks, questions,… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
...the habit of falling hardens the body, reaching the ground, to in itself, is a relief. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“...given the behaviour of human beings throughout the ages, they do not deserve life, with its many dark sides, in all its… — José 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
...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 Image
