Jose Saramago Quotes

Biography: José Saramago is known for his work as a Nobel Prize-winning Portugue... more Biography: José Saramago is known for his work as a Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese writer. His unique narrative voice and imaginative works, such as "Blindness" and "The Gospel According to Jesus Christ," explore human nature and society. Saramago's contributions to literature have left a lasting global impact. less

"It is not the destination that matters, but the journey""We cannot simply accept others' truths, but must define ""There are times when it is necessary to write simply""Perhaps the only thing I really need is peace of mind""In life, there is always someone who stands out and someone who else's talent may be overshadowed.""To love is to think.""There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.""Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.""A journey never ends. Only travelers end.""I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. The type of epopees written in the Soviet Union, where they were agents of the Party, meant nothing to me.""The world had been sad since Tuesday.""Impossible, the word is impassable, but not because it says no, but because it stops the way.""It is necessary to unlearn what we have learned because there is no substitute for experience""In order to be reborn, we must first die""This is how we bind our muscles and weave our dreams""Human beings are the only animals who have to work""Only someone who is sincere recognizes the value of us thinking that we do not love enough""The life we have is the only life there is, and if we survive another five hundred years it will still be the only life there is""I think we are increasingly identifying with the visual because it is more immediate than corrective""Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity"

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