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As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping.
— Jose Saramago
It is true what people say, the young have the ability, but lack the wisdom, and the old have the wisdom, but lack the ability.
— Jose Saramago
Men are angels born without wings, nothing could be nicer than to be born without wings and to make them grow.
— Jose Saramago
In order to invent heaven and hell a man would need to know nothing except the human body
— Jose Saramago
Fear can cause blindness, said the girl with dark glasses, Never a truer word, that could not be truer,
— Jose Saramago
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I don't defend the idea of universal love. It has never existed and will never exist.
— Jose Saramago
The habit of falling hardens the body, reaching the ground, to in itself, is a relief.
— Jose Saramago
As so often happens, the thing left undone tires you most of all, you only feel rested when it has been accomplished.
— Jose Saramago
Everything in this world can volunteer some reply, what takes up time is posing the questions.
— Jose Saramago
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.
— Jose Saramago
Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.
— Jose Saramago
The mustiness that permeated the apartment, its whole subterranean atmosphere, was redolent of an abandoned tomb.
— Jose Saramago
I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.
— Jose Saramago
Americans have discovered fear.
— Jose Saramago
But appearances, while not always as deceptive as people say.
— Jose Saramago
What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?
— Jose Saramago
Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.
— Jose Saramago
Creating is always so much more stimulating than destroying.
— Jose Saramago
we shall no longer know who we are, or even remember our names
— Jose Saramago
None of them has a capital P branded on his forehead,
— Jose Saramago
Age carries with it a double load of guilt
— Jose Saramago
Are dreams perhaps the soul's memories of the body,
— Jose Saramago
Hard experience of life has shown us that, generally speaking, it is inadvisable to trust too much in human nature.
— Jose Saramago
but the effort of setting the table, heating up the food and then washing the dishes seemed to him tonight a superhuman one.
— Jose Saramago
...everything that is not literature is life.
— Jose Saramago
It is not only the voice of blood that needs no eyes, love, which people say is blind, also has a voice of its own.
— Jose Saramago
- You're very poetic.- No, just sad. — Jose Saramago
Fortunately, as human history has shown, it is not unusual for good to come of evil, less is said about the evil that can come out of good
— Jose Saramago
Just like everything else in life, let time take its course and it will find a solution.
— Jose Saramago
A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.
— Jose Saramago
Blessed be the night, which conceals and protects things fair and foul with the same indifferent mantle.
— Jose Saramago
What the day brings is one thing, what we ourselves contribute to the day is quite another
— Jose Saramago
No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.
— Jose Saramago
I still have the strength to carry the bread I eat, What always weighs more is the bread of the others,
— Jose Saramago
It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.
— Jose Saramago
Few things in life hurt as much as the awareness that one has betrayed the ideas of one's youth.
— Jose Saramago
A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.
— Jose Saramago
We never consider that the things dogs know about us are things of which we have not the faintest notion.
— Jose Saramago
I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.
— Jose Saramago
Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts
— Jose Saramago
It's the difference between a categorical "Get up" and a tentative "What about trying to get up?".
— Jose Saramago
Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.
— Jose Saramago
The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.
— Jose Saramago
the only thing that lasts a whole lifetime is life itself, everything else is inevitably precarious, unstable, transient
— Jose Saramago
A man could spend his whole life wandering about here and never find himself, especially if he is born lost.
— Jose Saramago
Oh, I doubt that, we gods are like bottomless wells, if you lean over us, you won't even see your image reflected back
— Jose Saramago
In a king, modesty would be a sign of weakness.
— Jose Saramago
A writer is just like anyone else, he cannot know everything, nor can he experience everything, he must ask and imagine,
— Jose Saramago
how often fears come to sour our life and prove, in the end, to have no foundation, no reason to exist
— Jose Saramago
Sounds like another allegory, interrupted the unknown voice, if you want to be blind, then blind you will be.
— Jose Saramago
When I think about it, I have no idea who you are, but that's not important, what matters is that we care about each other.
— Jose Saramago
Everything that will happen will happen ... and if you don't get to see it.. It will be because we didn't live long enough
— Jose Saramago
There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close.
— Jose Saramago
I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.
— Jose Saramago
The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein.
— Jose Saramago
If I could repeat my childhood, I would repeat it exactly as it was, with the poverty, the cold, little food, with the flies and pigs, all that.
— Jose Saramago
Without a future, the present serves no purpose,
— Jose Saramago
We are marching against the law of the jungle that the United States and its acolytes old and new want to impose on the world ...
— Jose Saramago
Here are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.
— Jose Saramago
Doesn't anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer?
— Jose Saramago
They're coming, they're coming.
— Jose Saramago
Don't be afraid, the darkness you're in is no greater than the darkness inside your own body ...
— Jose Saramago
Men are all the same, they think that because they came out of the belly of a woman they know all there is to know about women.
— Jose Saramago
That's how life is, what it gives with one hand one day, it takes away with the other.
— Jose Saramago
A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.
— Jose Saramago
The amber light came on.
— Jose Saramago
That's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.
— Jose Saramago
The human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.
— Jose Saramago
Doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time,
— Jose Saramago
Chaos is order yet undeciphered.
— Jose Saramago
The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
— Jose Saramago
Switch on the light, she said, I want to know if this is real.
— Jose Saramago
...the man who I still am loves the woman that you are
— Jose Saramago
Your questions are false if you already know the answer.
— Jose Saramago
Just two tears. That's all life is worth.
— Jose Saramago