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José Saramago

José Saramago

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I think that we are all blind. We are blind people who can see, but do not look.

José Saramago

José Saramago

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History 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

José Saramago

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She did not find an answer, answers do not always come when one needs them; often, waiting is the only possible answer.

José Saramago

José Saramago

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We do nothing more in life than search for the place to stay forever.

José Saramago

José Saramago

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The sad truth is that youth doesn't know what it can, and old age can't do what it knows.

José Saramago

José Saramago

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The world is becoming a cave just like Plato's: everyone looking at images and believing they are reality.

José Saramago

José Saramago

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(...) because life laughs at predictions and puts words where we imagined silences, and sudden returns when we thought we would never meet again.

José Saramago

José Saramago

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Ultimately, 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

José Saramago

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The blindness is also this: to live in a world where hope has ended.

José Saramago

José Saramago

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Things go wrong if they lack the touch of human skin.

José Saramago

José Saramago

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Hope, only hope, nothing else, you reach a point where there is nothing but hope, and then we discover that we still have everything.

José Saramago

José Saramago

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What will be, will be. I know that philosophy. They often call it predestination, fatalism, fate, but what it really means is that you will do as you damn well please, as always.