Quotes by Jose Saramago

Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people...

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

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

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

#Jose Saramago

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

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In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to...

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

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I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world....

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I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies,...

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

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I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret,...

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

#Jose Saramago