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Jose Saramago quotes

Portuguese Writer November 16, 1922 – June 18, 2010

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Jose Saramago quote: "If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you...."
If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life. Jose Saramago
Yet human experience and the practice of communication have shown throughout the ages that definitions are an illusion, like having a speech defect and trying to say love but unable to get the word out, or, better, having a tongue in one's head but unable to feel love. Jose Saramago
...sometimes I do actually forget that the person to whom I owe that love is a real person, complete in himself, not someone who should make do with some rather diffuse emotion which gradually resigns itself to its own fatal vagueness, as if that were a fate against which there were no possible appeal... Jose Saramago
...given the behaviour of human beings throughout the ages, they do not deserve life, with its many dark sides, in all its beauty, grandeur and magnificence... Jose Saramago
Jose Saramago quote: "Hard experience of life has shown us that, generally speaking,..."
Hard experience of life has shown us that, generally speaking, it is inadvisable to trust too much in human nature. Jose Saramago
This is the effect of panic, a natural effect, you could say that animal nature is like this, plant life would behave in exactly the same way, too, if it did not have all those roots to hold it in the ground, and how nice it would be to see the trees of the forest fleeing the flames. Jose Saramago
Jose Saramago quote: "Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and..."
Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer. Jose Saramago
we would understand much more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting time on identities and coherences, seeing as these have a duty to provide their own explanations. Jose Saramago
. . . these men and these women, standing before the mirror of their life, spit every day in the face of what they were with the sputum of what they are. Jose Saramago
You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives. Jose Saramago
Jose Saramago quote: "Even death, faced with the option of death or life, she would..."
Even death, faced with the option of death or life, she would choose life. Jose Saramago
Jose Saramago quote: "Few things in life hurt as much as the awareness that one has..."
Few things in life hurt as much as the awareness that one has betrayed the ideas of one's youth. Jose Saramago
Jose Saramago quote: "just like everything else in life, let time take its course..."
just like everything else in life, let time take its course and it will find a solution. Jose Saramago
Jose Saramago quote: " that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the..."
... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both. Jose Saramago
Jose Saramago quote: "The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or..."
The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. Jose Saramago

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