"Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated……" — Jose Saramago
"Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been established whether it is the novel that prevents man from forgetting himself or the impossibility of forgetfulness that makes him write novels."
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142 Quotes by Jose Saramago
Jose Saramago has 142 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land…
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This must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say…
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doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time
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A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.
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People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In…
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Jeronimo, my grandfather, swine-herder and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the…
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In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not…
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Each day is a little bit of history
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En ningún momento de la historia, en ningún lugar del planeta, las religiones han servido para que los seres humanos…
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Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand…
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We are marching against the law of the jungle that the United States and its acolytes old and new want…
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Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
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