Jose Saramago quote: "I believe myself to be the type of person who does not complicate his life. I have always lived my life without dramatizing things, whether the good things that have happened to me or the bad. I simply live those moments."

In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do n...
JOSE SARAMAGO

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a ...
JOSE SARAMAGO

Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land...
JOSE SARAMAGO

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies ...
JOSE SARAMAGO

I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how ...
JOSE SARAMAGO

Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines...
JOSE SARAMAGO

It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendu...
JOSE SARAMAGO

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functiona...
JOSE SARAMAGO

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to ...
JOSE SARAMAGO

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life a...
JOSE SARAMAGO

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world e...
JOSE SARAMAGO

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination...
JOSE SARAMAGO

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

Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be of knowing, recognizing, and commu...
JOSE SARAMAGO

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might ...
JOSE SARAMAGO

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.
JOSE SARAMAGO

I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.
JOSE SARAMAGO

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what...
JOSE SARAMAGO

This campaign in the United States is not the first one against Egas Moniz, and I suspect it won't b...
JOSE SARAMAGO

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who c...
JOSE SARAMAGO

Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marx...
JOSE SARAMAGO

The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with th...
JOSE SARAMAGO

This is how everyone has to begin, men who have never known a woman, women who have never known a ma...
JOSE SARAMAGO

All the scheming and plotting in the world won't result in something lasting, transcendent. Anything...
JOSE SARAMAGO

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

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

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
JOSE SARAMAGO

Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, the...
JOSE SARAMAGO

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form o...
JOSE SARAMAGO

At the end of the 1950s, I started working at a publishing company, Estudios Cor, as production mana...
JOSE SARAMAGO

I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have...
JOSE SARAMAGO

I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, a...
JOSE SARAMAGO

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is.
JOSE SARAMAGO

The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.
JOSE SARAMAGO

Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marche...
JOSE SARAMAGO

The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all ...
JOSE SARAMAGO

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fas...
JOSE SARAMAGO

We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can c...
JOSE SARAMAGO

Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and comm...
JOSE SARAMAGO

Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they n...
JOSé SARAMAGO

I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but...
JOSé SARAMAGO

Without a future, the present serves no purpose,
JOSé SARAMAGO

Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king,
JOSé SARAMAGO

(...) com mil diabos, a cegueira não se pega, A morte também não se pega, e apesar disso todos mo...
JOSé SARAMAGO

Probablemente, sólo en un mundo de ciegos serán las cosas lo que realmente son, dijo el médico. Y...
JOSé SARAMAGO

El miedo ciega, dijo la chica de gafas oscuras. Son palabras ciertas, ya eramos ciegos en el momento...
JOSé SARAMAGO

É assim a vida, vai dando com uma mão até que chega o dia em que tira tudo com a outra.
JOSé SARAMAGO

As religiões, todas elas, por mais voltas que lhes dermos, não têm outra justificação para exis...
JOSé SARAMAGO

Sin muerte no hay resurrección, y sin resurrección no hay iglesia
JOSé SARAMAGO

À igreja nunca se lhe pediu que explicasse fosse o que fosse, a nossa outra especialidade, além da...
JOSé SARAMAGO

… la muerte, por sí misma, sola, sin ninguna ayuda exterior, siempre ha matado mucho menos que el...
JOSé SARAMAGO

One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.
JOSé SARAMAGO

The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he doesn't understand u...
JOSé SARAMAGO

As crianças, disse Caim, aquelas crianças estavam inocentes, Meu deus, murmurou
Abraão e a s...
JOSé SARAMAGO

If, before every action, we were to begin by weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in ea...
JOSé SARAMAGO

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
JOSé SARAMAGO

...the habit of falling hardens the body, reaching the ground, to in itself, is a relief.
JOSé SARAMAGO

If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?
JOSé SARAMAGO

Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered.
JOSé SARAMAGO

There are people like Senhor José everywhere, who fill their time, or what they believe to be their...
JOSé SARAMAGO

Stretching one arm behind him, the man passed his hand over the horse's coat, his own skin transform...
JOSé SARAMAGO

Words are like that, they deceive, they pile up, it seems they do not know where to go, and, suddenl...
JOSé SARAMAGO

blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.
JOSé SARAMAGO

Not only does the universe have its own laws, all of them indifferent to the contradictory dreams an...
JOSé SARAMAGO

Confidential matters are not dealt with over the telephone, you'd better come here in person. I cann...
JOSé SARAMAGO

O mais corrente neste mundo, nestes tempos em que às cegas vamos tropeçando, é esbarrarmos, ao vi...
JOSé SARAMAGO

Authoritarian, paralyzing, circular, occasionally elliptical stock phrases, also jocularly referred ...
JOSé SARAMAGO

Se antes de cada acto nosso nos puséssemos a prever todas as consequências dele, a pensar nelas a ...
JOSé SARAMAGO

un hombre no va menos perdido por caminar en línea recta.
JOSé SARAMAGO

Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except th...
JOSé SARAMAGO

With the passage of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting ...
JOSé SARAMAGO

Why did we become blind, I don't know, perhaps one day we'll find out, Do you want me to tell you wh...
JOSé SARAMAGO

Só quero dizer que aquilo que cada um de nós tiver de ser na vida, não o será pelas palavras que...
JOSé SARAMAGO

Prometeram-nos paraísos e ameaçaram-nos com infernos, tão falsos uns como os outros, insultos des...
JOSé SARAMAGO

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, al...
JOSé SARAMAGO

Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and comm...
JOSé SARAMAGO

Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.
JOSé SARAMAGO

...sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things, the distances between them, it...
JOSé SARAMAGO

...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much long...
JOSé SARAMAGO

La ceguera también es esto, vivir en un mundo donde se ha acabado la esperanza
JOSé SARAMAGO

عندما نكون في محنة كبيرة وقد أُصبنا بوباء الألم والكرب ...
JOSé SARAMAGO

قال بسرعة: أنا بخير شكرا لك, هذا ما نقوله
عندما ل...
JOSé SARAMAGO

الصعوبة لاتكمن في معايشة الناس إنما في فهمهم .
JOSé SARAMAGO

شكراً لتجربة الحياة القاسية، المعلم الأساسي لكل الانض�...
JOSé SARAMAGO

الأجوبة لا تأتي دائمًا عند الحاجة إليها
JOSé SARAMAGO

Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king.
JOSé SARAMAGO

Há esperanças que é loucura ter. Pois eu digo-te que se não fossem essas já eu teria desistido ...
JOSé SARAMAGO

عندما نلاحظ يوماً, أننا لانستطيع فعل شيء جيد ونافع فيجب...
JOSé SARAMAGO

جميل اننا ما زلنا قادرين على البكاء فالدموع هي خلاصنا إ...
JOSé SARAMAGO

إن أردت أن تحظى بخدمة ممتازة اخدم نفسك بنفسك.
JOSé SARAMAGO

عندما يبدأ شخص ما بتنازلات صغيرة, فإن الحياة تفقد كل مع�...
JOSé SARAMAGO

We are so afraid of the idea of having to die… that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as...
JOSé SARAMAGO

When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time.
JOSé SARAMAGO

If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live...
JOSé SARAMAGO

لا أعتقد أننا أصبنا بالعمى، بل نحن عميان من البداية. حت�...
JOSé SARAMAGO

فالعمى هو أيضاً أن تعيش في عالم انعدم فيه كل أمل
JOSé SARAMAGO

Se podes olhar, vê. Se podes ver, repara.
JOSé SARAMAGO

!ما أصعب أن يكون المرء مبصراً في مجتمع أعمى
JOSé SARAMAGO

You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that...
JOSé SARAMAGO

Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.
JOSé SARAMAGO

The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.
JOSé SARAMAGO

Oh, I'm not just going too far, I've arrived.
JOSé SARAMAGO

Proclamava-se ali o fim do mundo, a salvação penitencial, a visão do sétimo dia, o advento do an...
JOSé SARAMAGO

A person is not like a thing that you put down in one place and leave, a person moves, thinks, asks,...
JOSé SARAMAGO

We have deemed all these words necessary in order to explain that we have been traveling more slowly...
JOSé SARAMAGO

Se sou pessimista é porque o mundo é péssimo, só isso.
JOSé SARAMAGO

Falar do passado é o mais fácil que há, está tudo escrito, é só repetir, papaguear, conferir p...
JOSé SARAMAGO

كم هي هشة الحياة عندما تُهجر
JOSé SARAMAGO

Non gioco con le parole, sono loro che giocano con me.
JOSé SARAMAGO

Dignity has no price, when someone starts making small concessions, in the end, life loses all meani...
JOSé SARAMAGO

Dizem que o tempo sara todas as feridas. Talvez seja verdade. Mas há feridas que parecem não sarar...
JOSé SARAMAGO

... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage en...
JOSé SARAMAGO

I'm always looking to the future and what will next be on the horizon.
JOSE ANDRES

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the fiel...
JOSE RIZAL

The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the vote...
JOSE MARTI

Happiness is always a coincidence.
JOSE BERGAMIN

He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.
JOSE RIZAL

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmon...
JOSE MARTI

For me, your real age is not the age on your ID. That's just a date when you were born.
JOSE MOURINHO

Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while inju...
JOSE RIZAL

Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our ...
JOSE MARTI

Pimenton gets its intense flavor because it is dried over wood smoke. You can try hot, sweet or bitt...
JOSE ANDRES

If I had to give one piece of advice to a budding entrepreneur, I would say: 'Aim big.'
JOSE FERREIRA

Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they recei...
JOSE MARTI

The Spaniard is gallant and patriotic, and sacrifices everything, in favorable moments, for his coun...
JOSE RIZAL

The American people deserve truthfulness, not more political campaigning. The American people deserv...
JOSE SERRANO

Stop pretending there's anything wrong with businesspeople hiring diligent laborers who will wor...
JOSE FERREIRA

I mix mayonnaise, ketchup and brandy and a little bit of mustard. This is a heck of a good sauce for...
JOSE ANDRES

The actions we took in the aftermath of 9/11 were harsh but necessary and effective. These steps wer...
JOSE RODRIGUEZ

Whenever I'm talking about relationships, it's always at least three things. It's my rel...
JOSE JAMES

We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.
JOSE NAROSKY

I am more important than my problems.
JOSE FERRER

A man, when he wishes, is the master of his fate.
JOSE FERRER

Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the wh...
JOSE MARTI

Charm is a product of the unexpected.
JOSE MARTI

Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.
JOSE MARTI

Look at our farmers' markets today, bursting with heritage breeds and heirloom varieties, foods ...
JOSE ANDRES

The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we mus...
JOSE MOURINHO

I cannot bet my life on it, because I was not involved, that Alex Rodriguez ever used steroids. But ...
JOSE CANSECO

As God has not made anything useless in this world, as all beings fulfill obligations or a role in t...
JOSE RIZAL

The President also talked at length about how well the American economy is doing. Apparently, he got...
JOSE SERRANO

He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for hi...
JOSE MARTI

I may be what my enemies desire me to be, yet never an accusation are they able to hurl against me w...
JOSE RIZAL

We young Filipinos are trying to make over a nation and must not halt in our march, but from time to...
JOSE RIZAL

One thing that makes me very happy is to see the growing activism among chefs in America. Chefs like...
JOSE ANDRES

Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.
JOSE MOURINHO

The way I use to develop an aerobic condition is three against three, man to man, in a square 20 met...
JOSE MOURINHO

Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ide...
JOSE RIZAL

I can't see why we can't toss in a Junior Walker or Wilson Pickett number in every once in a...
JOSE CARRERAS

I've always been a big fan of the American soul sound.
JOSE CARRERAS

Americans, they have an incredible operatic tradition: the Metropolitan Opera House is - if not the ...
JOSE CARRERAS

If I can do concert recitals, adapting the repertoire to my needs, then no problem, that's good ...
JOSE CARRERAS

If you are burned, you are naturally anxious to see what your face looks like as soon as they take t...
JOSE CARRERAS

It is important to be passionate, but it is also important to combine the heart and the head. I have...
JOSE CARRERAS

Certain things give you another perspective in life.
JOSE CARRERAS

When you arrive at a certain level it's very easy to say yes: that is the moment to learn to say...
JOSE CARRERAS

Yes, you must have the courage of being free.
JOSE CARRERAS

Music isn't only a profession.
JOSE CARRERAS

I am a little nervous with strangers. But I'm not tight inside. I think I am impulsive.
JOSE CARRERAS

If a man becomes more mature due to certain episodes in his life, it gives him the opportunity to lo...
JOSE CARRERAS

What originates everything are the emotions, the feelings, what we call soul. Then the brain command...
JOSE CARRERAS

At first we got along real well. Now... it's pretty much just a professional relationship.
JOSE CARRERAS

The voice is like a man, like ourselves: we all feel melancholic about what we have lost, the things...
JOSE CARRERAS

Yes, thanks to God... my life has a goal, much more important than my artistic activities, that is t...
JOSE CARRERAS

I've always said that music is like literature.
JOSE CARRERAS

Even out of severe difficulty, some positive things come.
JOSE CARRERAS

It is not easy for me to sing consonants, and I am sorry if I don't sing the 'S'.
JOSE CARRERAS

I love good food but I follow strict rules the days I perform.
JOSE CARRERAS

I am always living very good moments.
JOSE CARRERAS

The happiest moment in my life? When my doctor told me I was completely cured of leukemia.
JOSE CARRERAS

I am extraordinarily lucky, I was born in a family of strong moral values, and in my life I was able...
JOSE CARRERAS

When I sing, I want people to think only about the tenor and only about the music.
JOSE CARRERAS

I have a wonderful shelter, which is my family. I have a wonderful relationship with my brother and ...
JOSE CARRERAS

There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.
JOSE RIZAL

Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, ...
JOSE MARTI

The youth is the hope of our future.
JOSE RIZAL

The modernity of yesterday is the tradition of today, and the modernity of today will be tradition t...
JOSE ANDRES

The divine flame of thought is inextinguishable in the Filipino people, and somehow or other it will...
JOSE RIZAL

Soy sauce and seaweed go really well with potato chips.
JOSE ANDRES

I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results ...
JOSE MOURINHO

I prefer natural hardwood lump charcoal - the other stuff makes your food taste like Goodyear tires.
JOSE ANDRES

Without a doubt, one of my favorite American ingredients is blue crabs, a true delicacy! And a great...
JOSE ANDRES

Tony La Russa was quoted as saying that I was using steroids back then, and I was talking about it i...
JOSE CANSECO

If you have some potatoes, green beans and cauliflower, you have a heck of a dish that can feed an e...
JOSE ANDRES

One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.
JOSE MARTI

Education has always produced an incredible amount of data; that's always been obvious to me. Bu...
JOSE FERREIRA

Chefs are at the end of a long chain of individuals who work hard to feed people. Farmers, beekeeper...
JOSE ANDRES

In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.
JOSE BERGAMIN

I've been a cook all my life, but I am still learning to be a good chef. I'm always learning...
JOSE ANDRES

Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking ...
JOSE PADILHA

The cheapest gadget - and you don't even have to spend a dime - is chopsticks from a Chinese res...
JOSE ANDRES

Our brain, our body, craves fat. We cannot help it. That's why a kid will eat a hot dog quicker ...
JOSE ANDRES

I don't recommend steroids for everyone, and I don't recommend growth hormones for everyone....
JOSE CANSECO

If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assu...
JOSE RIZAL

We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the pe...
JOSE MARTI

Like many parents after a long family holiday, I usually welcome the moment when my kids head back t...
JOSE ANDRES

We knew that if the photos of CIA officers conducting authorized EIT (enhanced interrogation techniq...
JOSE RODRIGUEZ

The government that governs from afar absolutely requires that the truth and the facts reach its kno...
JOSE RIZAL

I believe in tradition and innovation, authenticity and passion.
JOSE ANDRES

The Philippine races, like all the Malays, do not succumb before the foreigner, like the Australians...
JOSE RIZAL

I believe myself to be the type of person who does not complicate his life. I have always lived my life without dramatizing things, whether the good things that have happened to me or the bad. I simply live those moments.

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I believe myself to be the type of person who does not complicate his life. I have always lived my life without dramatizing things, whether the good things that have happened to me or the bad. I simply live those moments.

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