Portuguese - Writer | November 16, 1922 - June 18, 2010
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
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The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.
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I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.
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In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.
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Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.
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Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.
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We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations.
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Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard.
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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.
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The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.
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The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
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The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.
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