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title: "2 Saramago Quotes"
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# Saramago

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José de Sousa Saramago was a Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony \[with which he\] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." His works, some of which can be seen as alle

##  Quotes by Saramago

> [“There's likely to be a battle, a war, The blind are always at war, always have been at war.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saramago/there-s-likely-to-be-a-battle-a-war-the-blind-are-always-at-war/)

[Saramago](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saramago/)

[Battle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/battle/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3d/saramago-93953_battle_there-s-likely-to-be-a-battle-a-war-the_124117.jpg)

> [“I think that after all it might be better to leave things as they are”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saramago/i-think-that-after-all-it-might-be-better-to-leave-things-as-they-are/)

[Saramago](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saramago/)

[Leave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/leave/)

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