"You know the name you were given, you……" — Jose Saramago

"You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have"

— Jose Saramago

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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…
Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land…
This must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say…
doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time
A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.
People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In…
Jeronimo, my grandfather, swine-herder and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the…
In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not…
Each day is a little bit of history
En ningún momento de la historia, en ningún lugar del planeta, las religiones han servido para que los seres humanos…
Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand…
We are marching against the law of the jungle that the United States and its acolytes old and new want…

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help… — Rodney Atkins
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to… — Chinua Achebe
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from… — John James Audubon
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by… — Saint Augustine
If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if… — Saint Augustine
The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. — Marcus Aurelius
The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race. — Sri Aurobindo
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. — Jane Austen
In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race. — Charles Babbage
The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not… — Edward Bach
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have… — Richard Bach

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