"... the best way of killing a rose……" — Jose Saramago
"... 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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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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