In this delivery I leave 70 Famous phrases José Saramago , Mechanic, translator and journalist before becoming acclaimed writer.
Born in Portugal, in a humble family in the 1920s, Saramago lived the Salazarist dictatorship from beginning to end, a fact that would have a profound impact on his political ideology, declaring himself a man of the left.
To this day, his works have been translated to more than 25 Languages. However, throughout his life, Saramago received harsh criticism from large global entities. These include the Church Catholic or the International Monetary Fund, who disagreed with the writer's humanist and communist ideals.
In 2010, at the age of 87, Saramago succumbed to the leukemia he had been fighting for years.
The human being did not receive the gift of speech to conceal his thoughts.
The wise man is satisfied with what he has until he invents something better.
The wisest man I have ever known in my life could neither read nor write.
They say that time heals the wounds, but no one has lived long enough to prove such a theory.
The human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never is, of knowing, recognizing and communicating everything that the human being lives and feels.
Just as the habit does not make the monk, the scepter does not make the king.
Death does not need to be cruel. Taking someone's life is more than enough.
Every day that passes is a bit of history.
Marriage consists of three people: the man, the woman and a third person, the most important, which is composed of men and women
Equally.
The worst pain is not the one you feel at the moment, but the one you feel later when there is nothing that can be done.
We can escape from everything except ourselves.
Chaos is nothing more than order waiting to be deciphered.
Your questions are false if you already know the answers.
The problem is that the right does not need any ideal to govern, while the left can not govern without ideals.
There are too many reasons not to tolerate the world we have now.
Every second that passes is a door into the future. But perhaps it is more accurate to say that the future is immense emptiness from which nourishes the eternal
I presented.
You can never be too careful with words, as they change their minds just as quickly as people.
As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and involve ourselves. It is the citizen who changes things.
I do not doubt that the man can live alone perfectly, but I am convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house after
Of itself.
There is nothing dramatic about death except that one loses one's life.
It is incomprehensible that there are people who participate in elections and referendums in a democratic way, and who are then unable to accept the
Democratic will of the people.
The definitive death of a writer takes place when absolutely no one reads his books. That is the true death.
It is economic power that determines political power, so that governments become political puppets of economic power.
It may be that the language chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each one expresses a minimal part of what really
is.
The human is a being that is constantly under construction, but also, and in parallel, always in a state of destruction.
Not only do I write, but I write what I am.
Universal love has never existed and will never exist.
The world is governed by non-democratic institutions: the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World
Trade, etc.
The novel is nourished by science, philosophy, poetry, etc. It's not just about telling a story.
Abstention means you stayed home or went to the beach. By voting blank you are saying that you have a political consciousness,
But you do not agree with any of the policy options available.
Death is present every day of our lives. Not that it produces a morbid fascination, but it is one of the truths of life.
I guess nobody will deny the positive aspects of American culture. These are well known. But these aspects do not make them forget
The catastrophic effects of the process of industrial and commercial colonization that the United States is perpetuating on the rest of the planet.
The novel is not a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that feeds on many rivers.
What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars, but is unmoved by the massacre of humans?
I think we are blind; Blind people who can see but do not look.
People live under the illusion that we have a democratic system, but that is only the external form of such a system. We actually live
In a plutocracy, the system of government of the rich.
In our interior there is something that has no name, but that is who we are.
We do not lack social movements demanding a different world, but if we do not coordinate internationally, capitalism simply
Laughs at these small organizations.
I think I am a person who does not complicate life. I have always lived my life without dramatizing, trying to live every moment, whether it was good or
bad.
Being fired is the best thing that has ever happened to me. It made me stop and think. It was my birth as a writer.
I have never liked the"positive heroes"of literature. They are almost always clichés, copies of copies, until the model has been threshed.
I prefer confusion, doubt, insecurity; Not simply because it is crude and productive material, literarily speaking, but because it is like
We really are humans.
Things are going to be very bad for Latin America. We simply have to take into account the ambitions and doctrines of the empire, which
Region as your backyard.
I always ask two questions: how many countries have military bases in the United States? In how many countries does the United States have military bases?
At the end of our lives we discover that the only condition to live is death.
Sometimes it is better to settle for what you have so you do not lose everything.
Society must change, but the political powers we now possess are not enough to effect this change. For this, the system
Democratic society as a whole would have to be redesigned.
The consciences remain silent more than they should.
The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relations that the Americans form with that which is foreign to them.
I am a person of left-wing convictions, and I always have been.
Actually I'm not a novelist, but a failed essayist who started writing novels because he did not know how to write essays.
I'm traveling less so I can write more. I choose my destinations depending on their usefulness for my work.
I do not imagine myself outside any social or political movement. Yes, I am a writer, but I live in this world and my writing does not exist in
A parallel reality.
The painter paints, the musician composes, the novelist writes novels. But I think we all have some common influence; Not because of being
Artists, but for being citizens.
Writing, for me, is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing, as if they were different things. I dedicate myself to putting words one
Behind another or before another, to tell a story, to say something that I think is important or useful, or at least important or useful to me.
After all, I'm fairly normal. I do not have weird habits, I do not dramatize. Above all, I do not make writing somewhat romantic. I'm not talking about the
Anguish that suffers when creating. I am not afraid of a blank page, of the writer's block, or of those things that are heard from the writers.
I was a good student in Primary. In second grade I did not misspell, and third and fourth I did in a single year.
During my adolescence, my political formation was nourished by the Marxist ideology. It was natural, since my ideology was influenced by the
Atmosphere of critical and active resistance. This was the case throughout the dictatorship and until the 1974 Revolution.
Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that abominable fragility that the rest of the world has already suffered or is now suffering
Same with a terrible intensity.
I had no books at home. I began to frequent a public library in Lisbon, where, without any help except curiosity and the
Learn, my taste for reading began to develop and refine.
I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright or essayist.
Americans have discovered fear.
I am no prophet.
To continue living, we must die. That is the history of humanity, generation after generation.
Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chávez asked him for some ground to install a military base and put a flag
Venezuelan
The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been changing for some 20 or 30 years. A civilization disappears while
Another is born.
Without a remote possibility of finding work, I dedicated myself exclusively to literature. It was time to find out what was worth as a writer.
The United States needs to control the Middle East, the entrance to Asia.
When I am busy with work that requires continuity, like a novel, I write every day.
Look at what happened in France with the employment law. The law was withdrawn because the town manifested itself in the streets. I think what we need is
A global movement of people who do not give up.
The most important period in my literary career reached the beginning of the Revolution, and, in a way, it took place thanks to the Revolution.