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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

The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. — 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

Time and time again one has seen how stories get exaggerated in the telling. — 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

We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other. — Jose Saramago

Today's bread does not eliminate yesterday's hunger, much less that of tomorrow. — Jose Saramago

[ ... ] death never replies, not because she doesn't want to, but because she doesn't know what to say in the face of the greatest of human sorrows. — Jose Saramago

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

On those grim days when he felt surrounded by the vacuum of absurdity, he always felt particularly weary. He tried to blame his weariness on the daily — 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

I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends. — 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

Death ... doesn't take her eyes off us for a minute, so much so that even those who are not yet due to die feel her gaze pursuing them constantly. — 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

The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them. — Jose Saramago

Age carries with it a double load of guilt — Jose Saramago

Death has no need to be cruel, taking people's lives is more than enough. — 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

They had their past to remember, the present to live in and the future to fear. — 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

The only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards. — 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

Pommel of his saddle and his helmet with a nose-piece, arms which might well prevent him from reaching any conclusions based on humanitarian logic, — Jose Saramago

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is. — 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

The final notes of the funeral march dropped like violets onto the tomb of the hero — 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

Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created. — Jose Saramago

We never consider that the things dogs know about us are things of which we have not the faintest notion. — Jose Saramago

Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king. — 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

Life laughs at predictions and introduces words where we imagined silences, and sudden returns when we thought we would never see each other again. — 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

We are only ever pretending to ourselves, never to other people ... — Jose Saramago

Even death, faced with the option of death or life, she would choose life. — 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

in order to win a battle it might sometimes be necessary to lose it — 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

Everyone has to speak of what they know, and what they do not know they should ask, — 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

In matters of feeling and of the heart, too much is always better than too little. — 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

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

Lord knows why they depict death with wings when death is everywhere. — Jose Saramago

Just two tears. That's all life is worth. — Jose Saramago