Jose Saramago Quotes

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• God, the devil, good, evil, it's all in our heads, not in Heaven or Hell, which we also invented. We do not realize that, having…
• Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base,…
• This must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say so, and yet unable to…
• doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time
• A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.
• People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a…
• Jeronimo, my grandfather, swine-herder and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the trees in the yard, one…
• In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing.…
• Each day is a little bit of history
• En ningún momento de la historia, en ningún lugar del planeta, las religiones han servido para que los seres humanos se acerquen unos a los…
• Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely…
• We are marching against the law of the jungle that the United States and its acolytes old and new want to impose on the world...
• I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.
• I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.
• There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is.
• The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.
• Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is…
• A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.
• It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.
• I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty,…

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