“The beginning is never the clear, precise end of a thread, the beginning is a long, painfully slow process that requires time and patience in order to find out in which direction it is heading, a process that feels its way along the path ahead like a blind man the beginning is just the beginning, what came before is nigh on worthless.” MenWayFeelsLongEndsOrderProcessPathClearBlindThreadPreciseWorthlessHeadingsBlind ManTime And Patience Author:Jose Saramago
“Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning.” EndsLosesDignityConcessions Author:Jose Saramago
“From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything is discussed in our world. But the democratic system, as if it were a given fact, untouchable by nature until the end of time, we don't discuss that.” IfsWorldEndsFactsLiteratureGivenEffectsMethodDemocraticOur WorldTrafficEcologyEnd TimesGalaxyGarbageJamGreenhousesVelocityUntouchablesTraffic JamGarbage Disposal Author:Jose Saramago
“In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.” EndsDiesConditions Author:Jose Saramago
“At the end of the 1950s, I started working at a publishing company, Estudios Cor, as production manager, so returning, but not as an author, to the world of letters I had left some years before.” WorldYearsEndsLeftCompanyLettersProductionsManagersPublishing Author:Jose Saramago
“The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.” WorldYearsHas BeensEndsLastsProcessChangedCivilizationSeptemberSeptember 11Process Of Change Author:Jose Saramago
“When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time.” SaidEndsDoneClearSaid And Done Author:Jose Saramago
“In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don't talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer's block, all those things that we hear about writers.” WritingEndsSufferingHabitNormalCreatingPagesBlockOddBlankAnguishWriter's BlockBlank Pages Author:Jose Saramago
