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More Quotes by José Saramago
Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters...
In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.
A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.
Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions. Decisions make us.
People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.
The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.
Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?
There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close.
Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered