This is how everyone has to begin, men who have never known a woman, women who have never known a man, until the day comes for the one who knows to teach the one who does not.

Quote by Jose Saramago

Topics: Women Quotes

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so...

There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so...

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my...

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my...

Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It...

Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It...

The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about...

The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about...

It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a...

It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a...

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a...

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a...

Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and...

Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and...

The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a...

The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a...

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon....

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon....

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of...

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of...

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing...

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing...

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has...

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has...

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see.

I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see.

We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we...

We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we...

Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions...

Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions...

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.

Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not...

Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not...