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Way Quotes by Jose Saramago
- 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,…
- Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an…
- I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world, and my writing…
- The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed…
- a man was on his way to the gallows when he met another, who asked him: where are you going, my friend? and the condemned…
- . . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism; optimists…
- ...this is the way fate usually treats us, it's right there behind us, it has already reached out a hand to touch us on the…
- Reading is probably another way of being in a place.
- This is the effect of panic, a natural effect, you could say that animal nature is like this, plant life would behave in exactly the…
- ... the best way of killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.
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