Famous quotes

Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Moritz Gottlieb Saphir

Moritz Gottlieb Saphir

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Everyone should marry; it is not permissible to selfishly exempt oneself from a general calamity.

Moritz Gottlieb Saphir

Moritz Gottlieb Saphir

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Humanity ceases to throw stones at its superior spirits as soon as it can raise a monument to them.

Roberto Sapriza

Roberto Sapriza

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Work done with pleasure and love is always an original and unique creation.

José Saramago

José Saramago

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I don't believe in God, I don't need it, and besides, I'm a good person.

José Saramago

José Saramago

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We are the memory we have and the responsibility we assume. Without memory, we do not exist, and without responsibility, perhaps we do not deserve to exist.

José Saramago

José Saramago

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Words are just stones placed across the river's current. If they are there, it is so that we can reach the other bank, the other bank is what matters.

José Saramago

José Saramago

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Writers live off the unhappiness of the world. In a happy world, there would be no writers.

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José Saramago

José Saramago

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Defeat has something positive: it is never final. On the other hand, victory has something negative: it is never final.

José Saramago

José Saramago

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I am not worried about death, I will dissolve into nothingness.

José Saramago

José Saramago

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There are those who deny me the right to speak about God because I do not believe. And I say that I have every right in the world. I want to talk about God because it is a problem that affects all of humanity.

José Saramago

José Saramago

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Sincerely, I believe that death is the inventor of God. If we were immortal, we would have no reason to invent a God. For what. We would never know him.