Quote of the day
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
José Saramago
Born: November 16, 1922
Died: June 18, 2010 (aged 87)
Bio: José de Sousa Saramago, GColSE, was a Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Known for:
- Blindness (1995)
- Baltasar and Blimunda (1982)
- The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (1991)
- All the Names (1997)
- Death with Interruptions (2005)
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