As I could not and did not aspire to venture beyond my little plot of cultivated land, all I had left was the possibility of digging down, underneath, towards the roots. My own but also the world's, if I can be allowed such an immoderate ambition.


Nobel Lecture (1998)

José Saramago Quotes

As I could not and did not aspire to venture beyond my little plot of cultivated land, all I had left was the possibility of digging down,...

As I could not and did not aspire to venture beyond my little plot of cultivated land, all I had left was the possibility of digging down,...

As I could not and did not aspire to venture beyond my little plot of cultivated land, all I had left was the possibility of digging down,...

As I could not and did not aspire to venture beyond my little plot of cultivated land, all I had left was the possibility of digging down,...