Talk:José Saramago

I have created the page of Jose Saramago and working on it. More quotations will be added every day. I am reading The Cave, and I shall read more books by this author. Therefore i suggest that my page be considered prominent. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Riazur rehman (talk • contribs) 10:55, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

It looks like you actually created a separate article at José de Sousa Saramago. Wouldn't you like to move those quotes to this José Saramago article? ~ Ningauble 18:48, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

yes, it should be merged. But i am new in editing. please merge it by yourself.thanks--Riazur rehman 01:59, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Y Done — I have merged both José de Sousa Saramago and All the Names into this article. ~ Ningauble 16:50, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Thank you--Riazur rehman 17:22, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

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Wikiquote no longer allows unsourced quotations, and they are in process of being removed from our pages (see Wikiquote:Limits on quotations); but if you can provide a reliable, precise and verifiable source for any quote on this list please move it to José Saramago. --Antiquary 12:31, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

• All the scheming and plotting in the world won't result in something lasting, transcendent. Anything that's authentic, that's real, comes in the form of a gift. Even if by accident.

• Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.

• I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see.

• Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.

• Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters.

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

• This is how everyone has to begin, men who have never known a woman, women who have never known a man, until the day comes for the one who knows to teach the one who does not.

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

• Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.

• My country is the Portuguese language.

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• "Deep down, I don't create anything. I'm just someone that lifts a rock and shows what's beneath it. It's not my fault that sometimes monsters come out."

• "It would be incoherent if I was against a writer getting his food from what he writes, what I find reprehensible is to write when you've got nothing to say."

• "Now we're living in the empire of oil and money - the rest is a disguise."

• "I'm not able to fear death."

• "Doesn't anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer?"

• "God, the devil, good, evil, it's all in our heads, not in Heaven or Hell, which we also invented. We don't understand that when we created God we immediately became His slaves."

• I'm not a complete atheist. I try to look for a sign of God every day, but unfortunately I can't find it."

• "Yes, I do have the Nobel Prize. So what? It's not that I think it isn't much, no, no. It's just that, deep down, nothing is much, everything is insignificant."

• "Globalization is a form of totalitarianism. A totalitarianism that doesn't need green shirts, or brown, or swastikas. The rich rule and the poor live as well they can."

• "The wisest man I've ever met couldn't read or write."

• "Let's not rush anything, but let's not waste any time."

• "Our biggest tragedy is not knowing what to do with our lives."

• "If we're not capable of living entirely as people, let us at least try our best not to live entirely as animals."

• "We all know that each new day is the first for some, it will be the last for others and for most is just another day."