But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion. Jose Saramago More Quotes by Jose Saramago More Quotes From Jose Saramago The beginning is never the clear, precise end of a thread, the beginning is a long, painfully slow process that requires time and patience in order to find out in which direction it is heading, a process that feels its way along the path ahead like a blind man the beginning is just the beginning, what came before is nigh on worthless. Jose Saramago menorderlong Americans have discovered fear. Jose Saramago Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying that you understand your responsibility, you have a political conscience and you came to vote, but you don't agree with any of the existing parties and this is the only way you have of saying so. Jose Saramago partybeachmean Everything in this world can volunteer some reply, what takes up time is posing the questions. Jose Saramago posingvolunteerworld It takes little or nothing to undo reputations, the merest trifle makes and remakes them, it is simply a question of finding the best means of engaging the confidence or interest of those who are to become one's unsuspecting echoes or accomplices. Jose Saramago echoeslittlesmean Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity. Jose Saramago fragilityintensityworld Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it. Jose Saramago secret-placesmomentssecret I consider books to be good for our health, and also our spirits, and they help us to become poets or scientists, to understand the stars or else to discover them deep within the aspirations of certain characters, those who sometimes, on certain evenings, escape from the pages and walk among us humans, perhaps the most human of us all. Jose Saramago starscharacterbook In general, fakirs, like scribes and potters, are sitting down, when he's standing up, a fakir is just like an other man, and sitting down, he'll be smaller than the others. Jose Saramago sitting-downpottersmen When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time. Jose Saramago doneendssaid Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking. Jose Saramago ownershipformliking-someone You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have Jose Saramago givennamesknows A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended. Jose Saramago cuttingdogmen Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins. Jose Saramago understoodcertaintrouble For human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque body from which words are born. Jose Saramago shadowbodylight Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer. Jose Saramago possibilityliteraturejobs Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the proper legal time. Jose Saramago novembertwoworld Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard. Jose Saramago ambitionlatinamerica Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can. Jose Saramago globalizationrichpoor I write to try to understand, and because I have nothing better to do. Jose Saramago writingtrying
