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

quote by Jose Saramago
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I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.

quote by Jose Saramago
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Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.

quote by Jose Saramago
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There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

quote by Jose Saramago
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The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

quote by 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.

quote by Jose Saramago
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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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As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

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What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

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Every elephant contains two elephants, one who learns what he's taught and another who insists on ignoring it all.

Jose Saramago in The Elephant's Journey (2008), translated by Margaret Jull Costa
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