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Famous Jose Saramago Quotes
“Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king.”
“A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.”
“One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.”
“Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.”
“When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time.”
“Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.”
“In matters of feeling and of the heart, too much is always better than too little.”
“If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.”
“Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.”
“If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?”
“just like everything else in life, let time take its course and it will find a solution.”
“The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.”
“The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.”
“Even death, faced with the option of death or life, she would choose life.”
“One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger.”
“But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion.”