"When we are born, when we enter this……" — Jose Saramago
"When we are born, when we enter this world, it is as if we signed a pact for the rest of our life, but a day may come when we will ask ourselves Who signed this on my behalf?"
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142 Quotes by Jose Saramago
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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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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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