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"46 José Saramago Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 16 November 1922. Died: 18 June 2010 | Writer |

Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered

Chaos Order Deciphered
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Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.

World Blind Truly
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Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.

Language Writers Express
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Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions, decisions make us.

Speaking Decisions Make
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That's how life is, what it gives with one hand one day, it takes away with the other.

Life Gives Takes away
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Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts

Words Man Conceal Thoughts
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We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.

Words Understand Find
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Your questions are false if you already know the answer.

Questions False Know Answer
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Even death, faced with the option of death or life, she would choose life.

Death Option Life Choose
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There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close.

Moments Life Heaven Door
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that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.

Life Person Heart Courage
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The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with God, for he doesn't understand us, and we don't understand him.

History Mankind God Understand
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Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.

Words Hierarchy Protocol Stigmas
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If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?

Sincere Today Regret Tomorrow
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I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.

Think Blind People See
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Reading is probably another way of being in a place.

Reading Way Place
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The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.
Difficult Liviing People Understanding
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Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.

Words Heart Read Eyes
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Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

Justification Existence Religions Death
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You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have

Know Name You
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When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time

Clear Lives End Time
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If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.

Live Human beings Power
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Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king.

Habit Make Sceptre King
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If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.

Write Books Life
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But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion.

Truths Repeated Times Oblivion
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One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger.

Show Respect Weep Stranger
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Doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time

Doubt Privilege Lived Time
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there are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

Times Content Lose
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Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins.

Learn Understood Trace Origins
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Just like everything else in life, let time take its course and it will find a solution.

Life Course Find Solution
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Don't you know, If you don't step outside yourself, you'll never discover who you are

Know Step outside Discover
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The only thing more terrifying than blindness is being the only one who can see.

Terrifying Blindness See
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With the passage of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the color of our blood and the salt of our tears.

Time Social evolution Conscience
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the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.

Human being Lack Egoism Born
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Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

Inside us Name Something
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We can escape from everything, but not from ourselves.

Escape Everything Ourselves
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Each day is a little bit of history

Each day Little bit History
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Creating is always so much more stimulating than destroying.

Creating Stimulating Destroying
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It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

Economic Power Political Governments
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In matters of feeling and of the heart, too much is always better than too little.

Feeling Heart Too much Little
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As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

Citizens Obligation Involved Changes
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Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning.

Dignity Price Life Meaning
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In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

End Discover Living Die
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Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.

Conscience Silence Laws Created
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Every thing in life is a uniform; the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked.

Life Bodies Civilian Naked
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The only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards.

Time Death Alive
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José Saramago Quotes & Sayings