“Men are angels born without wings, nothing could be nicer than to be born without wings and to make them grow.” MenGrowsBornAngelWings Author:Jose Saramago
“I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon.” BornHundredRiversEastVillagePeasantsProvincesSmall VillagesNorth East Author:Jose Saramago
“Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the proper legal time.” WorldTwoShowsBornFineBirthMy FamilyThanksOfficialsFraudDocumentsPettyNovemberTwo Days Author:Jose Saramago
“When we are born, when we enter this world, it is as if we signed a pact for the rest of our life, but a day may come when we will ask ourselves Who signed this on my behalf?” IfsWorldMayAsksBornOur LivesThis WorldBehalfPact Author:Jose Saramago
“blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.” PersonsMatterEyeBornBlindness Author:Jose Saramago
“For human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque body from which words are born.” HumansBodyLightBornShadowIncapableExplainingOpaque Author:Jose Saramago
“Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it.” MomentsBornSecretSecret Places Author:Jose Saramago
“...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.” HumansLastsBornHuman BeingsSkinsEgoism Author:Jose Saramago
