... the best way of killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
. . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done… — 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
I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer… — 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
...this is the way fate usually treats us, it's right there behind us, it has already reached out a hand to touch… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a… — 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
“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
