Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning. Jose Saramago More Quotes by Jose Saramago More Quotes From Jose Saramago If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow? Jose Saramago does-it-matter regret today just like everything else in life, let time take its course and it will find a solution. Jose Saramago courses solutions When we are born, when we enter this world, it is as if we signed a pact for the rest of our life, but a day may come when we will ask ourselves Who signed this on my behalf? Jose Saramago born may world Writer's make national literature, while translators make universal literature. Jose Saramago translators universal literature There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything. Jose Saramago loses contentment Death ... doesn't take her eyes off us for a minute, so much so that even those who are not yet due to die feel her gaze pursuing them constantly. Jose Saramago minutes eye death There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close. Jose Saramago choices doors order 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. Jose Saramago existence bread needs In matters of feeling and of the heart, too much is always better than too little. Jose Saramago matter feelings heart ...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless we escape from ourselves you mean, No, that's not the same thing. Jose Saramago islands order mean Why did we become blind, I don't know, perhaps one day we'll find out, Do you want me to tell you what I think, Yes, do, 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. Jose Saramago one-day people thinking Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt. Jose Saramago communicate vocabulary knowing The minds of human beings are not always entirely at one with the world in which they live, some people have trouble adjusting to reality, basically they're just weak, confused spirits who use words, sometimes very skillfully, to justify their cowardice. Jose Saramago confused reality people In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays. Jose Saramago essays novelists writing It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from scratch. Jose Saramago elderly scratches fall The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud. Jose Saramago bud rose promise If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life. Jose Saramago ifs writing book Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there? Jose Saramago flags land military Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all. Jose Saramago forgive-me forgiving littles Reading is probably another way of being in a place. Jose Saramago another-way reading way
