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Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.
Jose Saramago
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There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is.
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The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975.
Jose Saramago
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We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations.
Jose Saramago
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The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.
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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.
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I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.
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The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.
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In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.
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It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people.
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Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
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There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.
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Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.
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I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.
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