We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas. — 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
“In this case, consulting the dictionary would simply mean discovering what one already knew, Dictionaries only provide information that is likely to… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“Do you mean that we have more words than we need, I mean that we have too few feelings, Or that we… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
...for human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Life is like that, full of words that are not worth saying or that were worth saying once but not any more,… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“... it's all words and only words, and beyond the words there's nothing... a word, which, like all the others, can only… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
Yet human experience and the practice of communication have shown throughout the ages that definitions are an illusion, like having a speech… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Unlike Joseph her husband, Mary is neither upright nor pious, but she is not blame for this, the blame lies with the… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
“They were proclaiming the end of the world, redemption through penitence, the visions of the seventh day, the advent of the angel,… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
“We have an odd relationship with words. We learn a few when we are small, throughout our lives we collect others through… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
Words are like that, they deceive, they pile up, it seems they do not know where to go, and, suddenly, because of… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“Contrary to what is generally believed, meaning and sense were never the same thing, meaning shows itself at once, direct, literal, explicit,… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own aristocratic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.” — José Saramago Copy Share Image
“News is nothing but words, and you can never really tell if words are news.” — 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 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
