Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been… — 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
The beginning is never the clear, precise end of a thread, the beginning is a long, painfully slow process that requires time… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
In general, fakirs, like scribes and potters, are sitting down, when he's standing up, a fakir is just like an other man,… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book,… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I don't doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I'm convinced that he begins to die as… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Some drivers have already got out of their cars, prepared to push the stranded vehicle to a spot where it will not… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Men are angels born without wings, nothing could be nicer than to be born without wings and to make them grow. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. At four o'clock in the morning, when… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Men are all the same, they think that because they came out of the belly of a woman they know all there… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
a man was on his way to the gallows when he met another, who asked him: where are you going, my friend?… — 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
The much-quoted immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary occurred but once so that the world might know that Almighty God, when He… — 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
