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As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.
Jose Saramago
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A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.
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The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.
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I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.
Jose Saramago
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I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?
Jose Saramago
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Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?
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I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see.
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I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.
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Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties.
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I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.
Jose Saramago
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Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.
Jose Saramago
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Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.
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Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard.
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