Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt. Jose Saramago capablecommunicateexperience Change image and share on social
Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the proper legal time. Jose Saramago 18thbearbirth share on social
Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are. Jose Saramago inside Change image and share on social
I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon. Jose Saramago almondaazinhagabank Change image and share on social
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. Jose Saramago badcomplicatedramatize share on social
People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich. Jose Saramago democraticformgovernment Change image and share on social
In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don't talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer's block, all those things that we hear about writers. Jose Saramago actanguishblank share on social
A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction. Jose Saramago constantconstantlyconstruction Change image and share on social
There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is. Jose Saramago plentyputreason Change image and share on social
