"People live with the illusion that we have……" — Jose Saramago
"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 plutocracy, a government of the rich."
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142 Quotes by Jose Saramago
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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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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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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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I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.
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