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José Saramago

José Saramago

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I do not write to please, nor to displease. I write to unsettle.

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José Saramago

José Saramago

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If literature could change the world, it would have already done so.

José Saramago

José Saramago

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Disagreeing is one of the rights missing from the Declaration of Human Rights.

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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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 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.

Jean Paul Sartre

Jean Paul Sartre

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

Jean Paul Sartre

Jean Paul Sartre

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Like all dreamers, I mistook disillusionment for truth.

Jean Paul Sartre

Jean Paul Sartre

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Man is born free, responsible, and without excuses.

Jean Paul Sartre

Jean Paul Sartre

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