José Saramago
View AuthorShe did not find an answer, answers do not always come when one needs them; often, waiting is the only possible answer.
José Saramago
View AuthorWe do nothing more in life than search for the place to stay forever.
José Saramago
View AuthorThe sad truth is that youth doesn't know what it can, and old age can't do what it knows.
José Saramago
View AuthorThe world is becoming a cave just like Plato's: everyone looking at images and believing they are reality.
José Saramago
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José Saramago
View AuthorUltimately, it must be acknowledged that history is not selective; it is also discriminatory, taking from life what interests it as socially accepted material as historical and disregarding the rest, precisely where the true explanation of the facts, of things, of the damn reality could perhaps be found. Truly I tell you, truly I say that it is better to be a novelist, a fiction writer, a liar.
José Saramago
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Stendhal
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Robert Louis Stevenson
View AuthorI don't ask for wealth, or hopes, or love, or a friend who understands me; all I ask for is the sky above me and a path at my feet.
Igor Stravinsky
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Jonathan Swift
View AuthorWe can observe in the republic of dogs that the entire State enjoys the most absolute peace after a plentiful meal, and that civil strife arises among them as soon as a big bone falls into the possession of a dominant dog, who either distributes it among a few, establishing an oligarchy, or keeps it for himself, establishing a tyranny.
