53 Quotes About Saramago

  • Author José Saramago
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    she gave him the safest place, what fragile walls we'd make, a mere stone in the middle of the road without any hope other than to see the enemy trip over it.

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  • Author José Saramago
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    if before every action, we were to begin by weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probable, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt.

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  • Author José Saramago
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    sighs could be heard, moaning, tiny cries, muffled at first, sounds that seemed to be words, that ought to be words, but whose meaning got lost in the crescendo that transformed them into shouts and grunts and finally heavy, stertorous breathing.

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  • Author José Saramago
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    Con l’andar del tempo, più le attività di convivenza e gli scambi genetici, abbiamo finito col ficcare la coscienza nel colore del sangue e nel sale delle lacrime, e, come se non bastasse, degli occhi abbiamo fatto una sorta di specchi rivolti all’interno, con il risultato che, spesso, ci mostrano senza riserva ciò che stavamo cercando di negare con la bocca.

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  • Author José Saramago
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    Se sobresaltó al oír decir, Buenos días, se había perdido la costumbre de dar los buenos días, no sólo porque días de ciegos, propiamente hablando, nunca pueden ser buenos, sino también porque nadie está completamente seguro de que los días no fuesen tardes o noches

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