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Blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.
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Just like everything else in life, let time take its course and it will find a solution.
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… because contrary to what people say, two weaknesses don't make for a still greater weakness, but for renewed strength...
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We humans are, at bottom, carriers of the time, because we take it with us, we use it, sometimes we waste it and sometimes something remains, though everything is doomed to oblivion.
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That it's possible not to see a lie even when it's in front of us.
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Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.
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All stories are like those about the creation of the universe, no one was there, no one witnessed anything, yet everyone knows what happened.
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I'm not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where people live so badly, nature is being destroyed and the dominant empire is money?
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Sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things, the distances between them, it separates people and they're lying next to each other, brings them together and they can barely see one another...
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[...], old photographs are very deceiving, they give us the illusion that we are alive in them, and it's not true, the person we are looking at no longer exists, and if that person could see us, he or she would not recognise him or herself in us, Who's that looking at me so sadly, he or she would say.
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A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book, when I finished: 'This is a book about Alentejo'.
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At this time of life even a day makes a difference, the only saving grace is that sometimes things improve.
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Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions. Decisions make us.
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That is the dream, I suppose, of all novelists—that one of their characters will become 'somebody.'
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I believe myself to be the type of person who does not complicate his life. I have always lived my life without dramatizing things, whether the good things that have happened to me or the bad. I simply live those moments. Of course, if I feel sorrow, I feel it, but I do not . . . Let me say it another way: I do not look for ways of being interesting.
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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 romanticize the act of writing. I don't talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer's block, all those things that we hear about writers. I don't have any of those problems, but I do have problems just like any other person doing any other type of work.
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One of the great fallacies of our age is democratic discourse.
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We know that happiness is short-lived, that we fail to cherish it when it is within our grasp and value it only when it has vanished forever.
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The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith.
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It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from scratch.
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Death has no need to be cruel, taking people's lives is more than enough.
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It takes little or nothing to undo reputations, the merest trifle makes and remakes them, it is simply a question of finding the best means of engaging the confidence or interest of those who are to become one's unsuspecting echoes or accomplices.
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The ear has to be educated if one wishes to appreciate musical sounds, just as the eyes must learn to distinguish the value of words.
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Today's bread does not eliminate yesterday's hunger, much less that of tomorrow.
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The much-quoted immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary occurred but once so that the world might know that Almighty God, when He so chooses, has no need of men, though He cannot dispense with women.
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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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