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José Ortega y Gasset

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HELENE WECKER Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET On the Bigotry of Culture:
: it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified ...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET The only thing that interests the physicist is finding out on what assumptions a framework of things...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET To meditate is to sail a course, to navigate, among problems many of which we are in the process of ...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET He who does not really feel himself lost, is lost without remission; that is to say, he never finds ...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET Desde el siglo XVI ha entrado la humanidad toda en un proceso gigantesco de unificación, que en nue...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET And such in fact is the behaviour of the specialist. In politics, in art, in social usages, in the o...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET ... every hypothesis is a construction, and because of this it is an authentic theory. In so far as ...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET The idea of beauty, like a slab of magnificent marble, has crushed all possible refinement and vital...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET A diferencia del poeta moderno, no vive aquejado por el ansia de originalidad. Sabe que su canto no ...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS “If and when the world does not meet your expectations, pick up a pen and paper and create your ow...
CARLOS SALINAS With some pen and paper we can write down lines that shows the freedom without cages
MARK LAMBERT Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I do not write to you, but of you,/because the paper that we write on/is our perishable skin.
MELISSA LEE-HOUGHTON The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen. But he could not read it, he thought I was tryi...
MITCH HEDBERG When a child is learning to write, it is extremely easy for it to hold the pen wrongly, and to form ...
JAMES ALLEN I like it when one is not certain what one sees. When we do not know why the photographer has taken ...
SAUL LEITER A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand...
GARY F EVANS... This is not about fighting or raiding the AFL-CIO, ... We're not at war with anyone, but we're tryin...
JAMES HOFFA If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the pap...
LORD ACTON If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. nothing in the pap...
PAUL AMBROISE VALERY De-orbit is not a risk-free activity. We will be pretty darned happy to get to wheelstop and see thi...
PAUL HILL Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM The paper and pen shall not brighten the pages only and go to sleep when we turn pages.
GOITSEMANG MVULA Why not risk your life, if you don't want to live anyway? Why not risk your life if you'll never be ...
CASSANDRA CLARE This is the people's money and if we are to loan this amount, regardless of how big or small it is, ...
MARCELINO P. ESCALADA So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport.
UPAMANYU CHATTERJEE To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN IF YOU CAN'T THANK GOD FOR WHAT YOU HAVE, THANK HIM FOR WHAT YOU HAVE ESCAPED!
NOT SURE i believe in love. lust. sex. romance. i don't want everything to add up to the perfect equation...i...
NOT REAL A conservative is a liberal who just got mugged and a liberal is a conservative who just got arreste...
NOT SURE If you are constantly looking in the rear view mirror, how will you ever see what is in front of you...
NOT SURE With pen and paper, I have written clever things. I have seen what it is to be a chief, a king, and ...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB There is six billion reasons for everything to go wrong and only one to get it right
JULIO DAVILA She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You hold substance in my psyche
SARAHBETH PURCELL When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic pro...
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU Let him be kept from paper, pen, and ink; So may he cease to write, and learn to think.
MATTHEW PRIOR I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flicker...
SARAH J. MAAS These supervisors have been running unopposed, and they (feel) they can do anything they want. They'...
CLAUDIA LITTLE One day a small monkey was always getting ignored by the other monkeys ,so to get attention he said ...
GARY F EVANS... It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my researc...
IMMANUEL VELIKOVSKY This is not Afghanistan... When we approach the question of Iraq, we realize here is a country which...
RICHARD ARMITAGE At the end of the day, if the guy is going to write the girl a letter, whether it's chicken scra...
MEGHAN MARKLE Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. The best memory you will every have is a pen and a piece of paper
MICHAEL CHAD BUTCHER It’s very hard to invent a pen but very easy to write with the same.
CHANDAN KUMAR DE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES He and I have discussed things but in terms of putting pen to paper, this thing has to run its cours...
EWEN MCKENZIE I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzva...
TONY KUSHNER I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our business...
WARREN BUFFETT I've never been given a satisfactory explanation for why what was seen at the start as criminal acti...
GORDON MACINNES But it is a pipe."
"No, it's not," I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representation...
JOHN GREEN Devon: "Why, Bryn, I do believe he's given her your pen."
Bryn: "Well, get Freud on the phone. ...
JENNIFER LYNN BARNES But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.
LAURENCE STERNE A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a serva...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
I was a survivor, and I was strong.
I would no...
SARAH J. MAAS I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?"

There was nothing but uncompromising w...
SARAH J. MAAS There you are. I've been looking for you.

His first words to me— not a lie at a...
SARAH J. MAAS I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door.
And I was not a mouse.
I ...
SARAH J. MAAS No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared.
SARAH J. MAAS He drained his glass. "I made a mistake."
"It's not the end of the world if you do that every n...
SARAH J. MAAS I will kill anyone who harms you," Rhys snarled. "I will kill them, and take a damn long time doing ...
SARAH J. MAAS Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR The next day, the villages came closer together until the beginnings and endings could no longer be ...
PATRICK W. CARR It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?"
"Ah. The Suriel to...
SARAH J. MAAS There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick ...
NATALIE GOLDBERG Vaccination of birds is the forefront of combating this infection. If we do not put a barrier to thi...
EDUARD DZHAVADOV It's too dangerous a journey to risk the cat's life.
CHARLES A. LINDBERGH Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try t...
DAVID NIVEN Anybody with a shopping cart, ball of twine and pen and paper could do an IPO in this market, ... Pu...
BEN HOLMES While turning a battleship is not easy, there is clear determination and urgency across the ranks.
ADRIANNE SHAPIRA A bully is nothing more than a bunch of bull with a Y attached to its rear.
LORIN MORGAN-RICHARDS If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste...
GARY F EVANS... 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON He is not a flight risk. Where is he going? I'm his wife. We have two beautiful daughters and two gr...
HOWARD MORGAN She was never a dull moment. All she really needed was a pen and paper, and she could sit there and ...
MARK SIGANA Ask two people to tell you anything, you’ll get two versions. Even easy things like directions, le...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN Ski racing, especially downhill, is a dangerous activity and there are many accidents. It would be r...
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JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes ...
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JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right ...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.
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JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET I am I plus my circumstances.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
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JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing ...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the ca...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has t...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET Contrary to the unsophisticated suggestions of melodrama, to rule is not so much a question of the h...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.
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JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an a...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET Law is born from despair of human nature.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET To live is to feel oneself lost
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JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET There is but one way left to save a classic: to give up revering him and use him for our own salvati...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET La belleza que atrae rara vez coincide con la belleza que enamora.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of ma...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.
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JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
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JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET We cannot put off living until we are ready.
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JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental trait...
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CLARA ORTEGA All that I love loses half its pleasure if you are not there to share it
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DANIEL ORTEGA The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventuall...
DANIEL ORTEGA If you're a young person who wants to become an actor, it's really important to walk into a ...
KENNY ORTEGA Today the winds of hope blow through Latin America and the Caribbean.
DANIEL ORTEGA We grew up in a situation where we didn't know what freedom or justice were, and therefore we didn't...
DANIEL ORTEGA Patrick Swayze reminded me a lot of Gene Kelly. Patrick had that Everyman quality. Gene made dancing...
KENNY ORTEGA One has to bear in mind that during my childhood and adolescence, I suffered the repression of the S...
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KENNY ORTEGA There's an old Fred Astaire movie where the stage becomes bigger and deeper and more complex. Mo...
KENNY ORTEGA David's going to battle for us to advance.
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ADRIAN ORTEGA The friction and the issues make you step in. Most of the people that are pushing this are legal - a...
ALBINO ORTEGA It's a way to say we know where you're at and we are going to catch you now.
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ANA ORTEGA The fact is that the United States is behind what has happened in Nicaragua, and what they did was t...
DANIEL ORTEGA Conditions are ripe for triumph. We will win. And we will wield great power here.
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DANIEL ORTEGA During the meeting with President Carter, we proposed the development of a new kind of relationship ...
DANIEL ORTEGA What we asked for were weapons so that we could defend ourselves -- that's what we asked of the Sovi...
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DANIEL ORTEGA Without the United States, there simply would not have been an armed uprising in our country.
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ISAI ORTEGA To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we alwa...
CLARA ORTEGA Conditions are ripe for triumph, ... We will win. And we will wield great power here.
DANIEL ORTEGA Certain social situations make me feel like a square peg in a round hole. Realising you can connect ...
LINDI ORTEGA Some say that "there is no such thing as free lunch". And, I ask, why not?
The joy of giving w...
ANA ORTEGA We're just waiting for the season to begin. And I can tell you one thing for certain: All my trucks ...
EDWARD ORTEGA The harvest lasts through November, so we've got plenty of time to sit back and wait and see.
EDWARD ORTEGA You need root strength to support whatever you grow.
EDWARD ORTEGA There was a conviction that the socialist cause was a just one, and so wherever there were struggles...
DANIEL ORTEGA We are going to wait for the moment of the debate, and we'll make the decision,
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DANIEL ORTEGA Civil rights in reverse is what I call it. What about our civil rights?
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DANIEL ORTEGA Escribimos lo que somos y somos lo que leemos
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JAIME ORTEGA President Castro assured us the pope will be received by all the people and will have maximum freedo...
JAIME ORTEGA One bad thing cannot be resolved with another bad thing.
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JAIME ORTEGA I felt pretty good, but it kind of wears you down. I can't really do anything about it. I was happy,...
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JOE ORTEGA We wanted to try something different.
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JENNIFER ORTEGA People seem to be learning more about wine and they are more discerning.
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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,
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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
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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 first duty of a man is to think for himself
JOSé MARTí How long have you been away from the country?" Laruja asked Ibarra.

"Almost seven years."...
JOSé RIZAL ...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 Day and night I always dream with open eyes.
JOSé MARTí 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 One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present it...
JOSé RIZAL Stretching one arm behind him, the man passed his hand over the horse's coat, his own skin transform...
JOSé SARAMAGO The whole spectrum issue would be a problem. [The combined entity] would have to return part of its ...
JOSé OTERO 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 I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man.
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JOSé ALANIZ If someone's personhood is in doubt (or seen as lacking), all the easier to direct death wishes at t...
JOSé ALANIZ The multiverse model offers an elegantly postmodern solution to character stasis in a market-driven ...
JOSé ALANIZ Sympathy once more reveals its limits when faced with madness.
JOSé ALANIZ I don't see why I should bow my head when I could hold it high, or place it in the hands of my enemi...
JOSé RIZAL Not only does the universe have its own laws, all of them indifferent to the contradictory dreams an...
JOSé SARAMAGO South Dakota switched to an indoor holding facility, and this year's pheasants are in even better sh...
JOSé TARACIDO What said those two souls communicating through the language of the eyes, more perfect than that of ...
JOSé RIZAL Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.
JOSé RIZAL I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its libertie...
JOSé RIZAL 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 The people believe that those who do not think as they do are fools. For that reason, they take me f...
JOSé RIZAL Authoritarian, paralyzing, circular, occasionally elliptical stock phrases, also jocularly referred ...
JOSé SARAMAGO But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to buil...
JOSé MARTí A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wonderin...
JOSé MARTí 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 We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.
JOSé MARTí 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