The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. Jose Saramago More Quotes by Jose Saramago More Quotes From Jose Saramago Death is the inventor of God. Jose Saramago inventor Age carries with it a double load of guilt. Jose Saramago carrieguiltage There is nothing that is truly free nor democratic enough. Make no mistake, the internet did not come to save the world. Jose Saramago internetmistakeworld It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene. Jose Saramago obscenepornographyhunger The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins. Jose Saramago september-11civilizationyears I believe that I've been asked all possible questions. I, myself, if I were a journalist, would not know what to ask me. Jose Saramago journalistask-mebelieve Don't be afraid, the darkness you're in is no greater than the darkness inside your own body, they are two darknesses separated by a skin, I bet you've never thought of that, you carry a darkness about with you all the time and that doesn't frighten you...my dear chap, you have to learn to live with the darkness outside just as you learned to live with the darkness inside Jose Saramago skinsdarknesstwo The much-quoted immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary occurred but once so that the world might know that Almighty God, when He so chooses, has no need of men, though He cannot dispense with women. Jose Saramago womenworldneeds I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. The novel receives streams of science, philosophy, poetry and contains all of these; it's not simply telling a story. Jose Saramago spacepoetryseascience
