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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.

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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.

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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.

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José Saramago

José Saramago

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

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José Saramago

José Saramago

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

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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.

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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.

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Jean Paul Sartre

Jean Paul Sartre

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Happiness is not doing what one wants but wanting what one does.

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Jean Paul Sartre

Jean Paul Sartre

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Like all dreamers, I mistook disillusionment for truth.

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Jean Paul Sartre

Jean Paul Sartre

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Man is born free, responsible, and without excuses.

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Jean Paul Sartre

Jean Paul Sartre

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Who is authentic, assumes the responsibility for being what he is and recognizes himself as free to be what he is.

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Jean Paul Sartre

Jean Paul Sartre

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I distrust incommunicability; it is the source of all violence.

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