Jose Saramago
Jose Saramago
José de Sousa Saramago, GColSE, was a Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the human factor. Harold Bloom described Saramago as "the greatest living novelist" and considers him to be "a permanent part of the Western canon", while James Wood praises "the distinctive tone to his fiction because he narrates his novels as if he were someone...
NationalityPortuguese
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth16 November 1922
CountryPortugal
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.
One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger.
Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.
Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.
...sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things, the distances between them, it separates people and they're lying next to each other, brings them together and they can barely see one another...
No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.
The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he doesn't understand us, and we don't understand him.
Every thing in life is a uniform; the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked.
Each day is a little bit of history
Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it.
Não é a pornografia que é obscena, é a fome que é obscena It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene.
If I could repeat my childhood, I would repeat it exactly as it was, with the poverty, the cold, little food, with the flies and pigs, all that.
Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can.
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.