Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created. Jose Saramago More Quotes by Jose Saramago More Quotes From Jose Saramago Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning. Jose Saramago concessions dignity ends One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do. Jose Saramago careful mind people Often when you ask for one thing you receive another, this is the mysterious thing about prayer, we address them to heaven with some private intention, but they choose their own path, sometimes they delay, allowing other prayers to overtake them, frequently they overlap and become hybrid prayers of dubious origin, which quarrel and argue among themselves. Jose Saramago mysterious-things prayer heaven There is relationship between sight and touch, something about eyes being able to see through the fingers touching the clay, about fingers being able to feel what the eyes are seeing without the fingers actually touching it. Jose Saramago touching eye sight Men are angels born without wings, nothing could be nicer than to be born without wings and to make them grow. Jose Saramago angel wings men Blind people do not need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters. Jose Saramago voice names people In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don't talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer's block, all those things that we hear about writers. Jose Saramago creating block writing Nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction. Jose Saramago tire persons struggle En ningún momento de la historia, en ningún lugar del planeta, las religiones han servido para que los seres humanos se acerquen unos a los otros. Por el contrario, sólo han servido para separar, para quemar, para torturar. No creo en dios, no lo necesito y además soy buena persona. Jose Saramago dio soy atheist Sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things, the distances between them, it separates people and they're lying next to each other, brings them together and they can barely see one another. Jose Saramago distance sleep lying We say Fine, even though we may be dying, and this is commonly known as taking one's courage in both hands, a phenomenon that has only been observed in the human species. Jose Saramago dying may hands We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations. Jose Saramago movement different laughing As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things. Jose Saramago obligation citizens house Unlike Joseph her husband, Mary is neither upright nor pious, but she is not blame for this, the blame lies with the language she speaks if not with the men who invented it, because that language has no feminine form for the words upright and pious. Jose Saramago husband men lying It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people. Jose Saramago election accepting people A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little. Jose Saramago stomach hunger littles I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends. Jose Saramago gmos receiving habit The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better. Jose Saramago contentment wise men I'm not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where people live so badly, nature is being destroyed and the dominant empire is money? Jose Saramago empires optimistic people Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts. Jose Saramago given men order
