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“We can escape from everything, but not from ourselves.”

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Portuguese writer known for his unique narrative style and profound philosophical reflections. His notable works include 'The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis' and 'Blindness'. more

“For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have nothing to do with each other. I arrange words one after another, or one in front of another, to tell a story, to say something that I consider important or useful, or at least important or useful to me. It is nothing more than this.”

Writing Two Important Stories Jobs Fronts Two Things

Author:Jose Saramago

“Somewhere in the infinite that He occupies, God advances and withdraws the pawns of the other games He plays, but it is too soon to worry about this one, all He need do for the present is allow things to take their natural course, apart from the occasional adjustment with the tip of His little finger to make sure some stray thought or action does not interfere with the harmony of destinies.”

Needs Littles Doe Play Action Courses Games Natural Destiny Worry Harmony Infinite Fingers Interfere Occasional Adjustment Pawns

Author:Jose Saramago

“Perfect moments, especially when they verge on the sublime have the grave disadvantage of being very short lived, which in fact, being obvious, we would not need to mention were it not that they have a still greater disadvantage, which is that we do not know what to do once they are over.”

Knows Needs Stills Moments Facts Perfect Greater Obvious Graves Sublime Disadvantages Verge Short Lived Perfect Moments

Author:Jose Saramago

“I don't think it is worth explaining how a character's nose or chin looks. It is my feeling that readers will prefer to construct, little by little, their own characterthe author will do well to entrust the reader with this part of the work.”

Thinking Wells Looks Littles Character Feelings Reader Noses Constructs Explaining Chins

Author:Jose Saramago

“Nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction.”

Persons Struggle Abstraction Tire

Author:Jose Saramago

“when you are old and realize that time is running out, you start imagining that you have the cure for all the ills of the world in your hand, and get frustrated because no one pays you any attention.”

World Hands Running Realizing Pay Attention Cures Frustrated Time Is Running Out Time Running Out

Author:Jose Saramago

“Today's bread does not eliminate yesterday's hunger, much less that of tomorrow.”

Doe Today Tomorrow Hunger Yesterday Bread

Author:Jose Saramago

“The ear has to be educated if one wishes to appreciate musical sounds, just as the eyes must learn to distinguish the value of words.”

Ifs Eye Values Wish Sound Appreciate Ears Musical Educated

Author:Jose Saramago

“It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from scratch.”

Young Fall Strange Goes On Ought Silent Scratches Elderly

Author:Jose Saramago

“People might ask me, What do you propose instead? I propose nothing. I am a mere novelist, I just write about the world as I see it. It is not my job to transform it. I cannot transform it all by myself, and I wouldn't even know how to. I limit myself to saying what I believe the world to be.”

People Knows World Writing Believe Might Jobs Asks I Believe Know How Limits Mere Ask Me Novelists Propose

Author:Jose Saramago

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