"but it is also true, if this brings……" — Jose Saramago
"but it is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if, before every action, we were to begin weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probably, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt."
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Jose Saramago
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142 Quotes by Jose Saramago
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