José Saramago
View AuthorTo have is not to possess. One can have that which is not desired. Possession is to have and enjoy what one has.
José Saramago
View AuthorThere are words that retract, that deny themselves, because they hold too much meaning for our ears tired of words.
José Saramago
View AuthorI have learned not to try to convince anyone. The work of convincing is a lack of respect, it is an attempt to colonize the other.
José Saramago
View AuthorWithin us there is something that has no name, and that is what we really are.
José Saramago
View AuthorI do not write to please, nor to displease. I write to unsettle.
José Saramago
View AuthorIf literature could change the world, it would have already done so.
José Saramago
View AuthorDisagreeing is one of the rights missing from the Declaration of Human Rights.
José Saramago
View AuthorI think that we are all blind. We are blind people who can see, but do not look.
José Saramago
View AuthorHistory is written from the point of view of the victors; the vanquished have never written history. It is inevitably written from a male point of view.
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.