What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being? Jose Saramago More Quotes by Jose Saramago More Quotes From Jose Saramago When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day. Jose Saramago novel example writing Not only does the universe have its own laws, all of them indifferent to the contradictory dreams and desires of humanity, and in the formulation of which we contribute not one iota, apart, that is, from the words by which we clumsily name them, but everything seems to indicate that it uses these laws for aims and objectives that transcend and always will transcend our understanding. Jose Saramago law names dream In a king, modesty would be a sign of weakness. Jose Saramago weakness kings would-be The ear has to be educated if one wishes to appreciate musical sounds, just as the eyes must learn to distinguish the value of words. Jose Saramago appreciate musical eye A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book, when I finished: 'This is a book about Alentejo.' Jose Saramago dream men book Every second that passes is like a door that opens to allow in what has not yet happened, what we call the future, but, to challenge the contradictory nature of what we have just said, perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the future is just an immense void, that the future is just the time on which the eternal present feeds. Jose Saramago void challenges doors Human nature is, by definition, a talkative one, imprudent, indiscreet, gossipy, incapable of closing its mouth and keeping it closed. Jose Saramago human-nature definitions mouths A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled. Jose Saramago filled women made The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith. Jose Saramago church faith mind The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas. Jose Saramago problem ideas needs Each part in itself constitutes the whole to which it belongs. Jose Saramago whole Oh, I'm not just going too far, I've arrived. Jose Saramago Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life. Jose Saramago morbid fascination facts The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. Jose Saramago genre-is literary-genre space One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger. Jose Saramago greater stranger shows ...the habit of falling hardens the body, reaching the ground, to in itself, is a relief. Jose Saramago relief body fall Words are like that, they deceive, they pile up, it seems they do not know where to go, and, suddenly, because of two or three or four that suddenly come out, simple in themselves, a personal pronoun, an adverb, an adjective, we have the excitement of seeing them coming irresistibly to the surface through the skin and the eyes and upsetting the composure of our feelings, sometimes the nerves that can not bear it any longer, they put up with a great deal, they put up with everything, it was as if they were wearing armor, we might say. Jose Saramago eye simple two Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is. Jose Saramago use might needs Lord knows why they depict death with wings when death is everywhere. Jose Saramago lord knows wings The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because of the fact that one is an artist, but because we are citizens. Jose Saramago artist writing believe
