“As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping.”
― José Saramago, quote from Seeing
“Oh, I'm not just going too far, I've arrived.”
― José Saramago, quote from Seeing
“الامل كالملح لا يغذي لكنه يعطى للخبز طعماً”
― José Saramago, quote from Seeing
“كم مرة تأتي المخاوف لتضيف المرارة لحياتنا وفي النهاية نكتشف أن لا أساس لها ولا سبب لوجودها”
― José Saramago, quote from Seeing
“But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion.”
― José Saramago, quote from Seeing
“نولد،وفي لحظة ميلادنا كما لو كنا نوقع ميثاقا للحياة للأبد،لكن في يوم ما نسأل أنفسنا من وقع هذا الميثاق بالنيابة عنا”
― José Saramago, quote from Seeing
“Nascemos, e nesse momento é como se tivéssemos firmado um pacto para toda a vida, mas o dia pode chegar em que nos perguntemos Quem assinou isto por mim.”
― José Saramago, quote from Seeing
“One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger.”
― José Saramago, quote from Seeing
“It is an unwavering rule for those in power that, when it comes to heads, it is best to cut them off before they start thinking, afterwards, it might be too late.”
― José Saramago, quote from Seeing
“اننا لهب صغير ومرتجف مهدد في كل لحظة بالخمود ونحن نعرف الخوف وقبل أي شئ يسكننا الخوف”
― José Saramago, quote from Seeing
“الامل كالملح لكنه يعطى للخبز طعماً”
― José Saramago, quote from Seeing
“Casting a ballot is your irrevocable right, and no one will ever deny you that right, but just as you tell children not to play with matches, so we warn whole peoples of the dangers of playing with dynamite.”
― José Saramago, quote from Seeing
“In a matter of a moment the amount of sand in the upper part of the hour-glass had dwindled dramatically, the tiny grains were rushing through the opening, each grain more eager to leave then the last, time is just like people, sometimes it’s all it can do to drag itself along, but at others, it runs like a deer and leaps like a young goat, which, when you think about it, is not saying much, since the cheetah is the fastest of all the animals, and yet it has never occurred to anyone to say of another person He runs and jumps like a cheetah, perhaps because that first comparison comes from the magical late middle ages, when gentlemen went deer-hunting and no one had ever seen a cheetah running or even heard of its existence. Languages are conservative, they always carry their archives with them and hate having to be updated.”
― José Saramago, quote from Seeing
“I have yet to hear a single idea that was worth considering for longer than it took us to listen to it.”
― José Saramago, quote from Seeing
“Put less respectfully, these men and women, standing before the mirror of their life, spit every day in the face of what they were with the sputum of what they are.”
― José Saramago, quote from Seeing
“human beings are known universally as the only animals capable of lying, and while it is true that they sometimes lie out of fear and sometimes out of self-interest, they also occasionally lie because they realize, just in time, that this is the only means available to them of defending the truth.”
― José Saramago, quote from Seeing
“إن الفرق الأكيد الذي يمكن أن نعقده بين الناس ليس تقسيمهم إلى أذكياء أو أغبياءن وإنما إلى أذكياء وأكثر ذكاءًا فمع الأغبياء نفعل ما نريد، أما الأذكياء فالحل أن نضعهم في خدمتنا، أما الأكثر ذكاءًا، خاصة عندما يكونوا جانبنا، فهم أشد خطورة بشكل جوهرين ولا يمكن أن يتلافوا ذلك، والطريف في الأمر أنهم يقولون لنا باستمرار بتصرفاتهم إن علينا أن نأخذ منهم حذرنا، لكننا عادة لا ننتبه لتحذيراتهم وبعدها علينا أن نتحمل العواقب”
― José Saramago, quote from Seeing
“We are born, and at that moment, it is as if we had signed a pact for the rest of our life, but a day may come when we will ask ourselves Who signed this on my behalf,”
― José Saramago, quote from Seeing
“ليس هناك حب أكبر من البكاء على شخص لم تعرفه”
― José Saramago, quote from Seeing
“Perfect moments, especially when they verge on the sublime have the grave disadvantage of being very short lived, which in fact, being obvious, we would not need to mention were it not that they have a still greater disadvantage, which is that we do not know what to do once they are over.”
― José Saramago, quote from Seeing
“((أنا أؤكد أن الصوت الابيض هو احد مظاهر العمي المدمر مثل الاخري))
((أو أحد مظاهر البصيرة))”
― José Saramago, quote from Seeing
“(...) Nada de discursos, aqui cada um com seu desgosto e todos com a mesma pena.”
― José Saramago, quote from Seeing
“عندما سمعها تنطق اسمها شعر في قلبه بشئ, ربما كان ظل سعادة قديمة, لا شئ سوي الظل, لكن بالرغم من كونه ظلا, فكر أنه من أجل ذلك فقط كان وجوده هنا له قيمة.”
― José Saramago, quote from Seeing
“The prime minister's final flourish, Honour your country, for the eyes of the country are upon you, complete with drumrolls and bungle blasts, unearthed from the attics of the mustiest of nationalistic rhetoric, was ruined by a Good night that rang entirely false, but then that is the great thing about ordinary words, they are incapable of deceit.”
― José Saramago, quote from Seeing
“It is an unvarying rule for those in power that, when it comes to heads, it is best to cut them off before they start to think, afterward, it might be too late.”
― José Saramago, quote from Seeing
“his career had just taken a great leap forward, he was going to pee in his chief's toilet.”
― José Saramago, quote from Seeing
“الحقوق ليست أشياء مبهمة,فالحقوق اما ان تستحق أو لا تستحق .”
― José Saramago, quote from Seeing
“من يحب الأهداف عليه أيضا أن يحب الوسائل”
― José Saramago, quote from Seeing
“La esperanza es como la sal, no alimenta pero da sabor al pan.”
― José Saramago, quote from Seeing
“none of them has a capital P branded on his forehead,”
― José Saramago, quote from Seeing
José Saramago
Born place: in Golegã, Azinhaga, Portugal
Born date November 16, 1922
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“I don't believe in your "Good". I believe in human kindness.”
― Vasily Grossman, quote from Life and Fate
“Amelia envisaged that between York and the royal-infested Scottish Highlands there was a grimy wasteland of derelict cranes and abandoned mills and betrayed, yet still staunch, people. Oh and moorland, of course, vast tracts of brooding landscape under lowering skies, and across this heath strode brooding, lowering men intent on reaching their ancestral houses, where they were going to fling open doors and castigate orphaned yet resolute governesses. Or — preferably — the brooding, lowering men were on horseback, black horses with huge muscled haunches, glistening with sweat —”
― Kate Atkinson, quote from Case Histories
“Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days.
Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How wonderfully clever you are! I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much.
Miss Prism: The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
“Not an atom of matter enters into the objectivity of commodities as values; in this it is the direct opposite of the coarsely sensuous objectivity of commodities as physical objects. We may twist and turn a single commodity as we wish; it remains impossible to grasp it as a thing possessing value. However, let us remember that commodities possess an objective character as values only in so far as they are all expressions of an identical social substance, human labour, that their objective character as values is therefore purely social. From”
― Karl Marx, quote from Capital, Vol 1: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
“In clear-cutting, he said, you clear away the natural forest, or what the industrial forester calls "weed trees," and plant all one species of tree in neat straight functional rows like corn, sorghum, sugar beets or any other practical farm crop. You then dump on chemical fertilizers to replace the washed-away humus, inject the seedlings with growth-forcing hormones, surround your plot with deer repellants and raise a uniform crop of trees, all identical. When the trees reach a certain prespecified height (not maturity; that takes too long) you send in a fleet of tree-harvesting machines and cut the fuckers down. All of them. Then burn the slash, and harrow, seed, fertilize all over again, round and round and round again, faster and faster, tighter and tighter until, like the fabled Malaysian Concentric Bird which flies in ever-smaller circles, you disappear up your own asshole.”
― Edward Abbey, quote from The Monkey Wrench Gang
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