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
Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.
One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger.
A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.
This is how everyone has to begin, men who have never known a woman, women who have never known a man, until the day comes for the one who knows to teach the one who does not
It would not be a question of censoring oneself, but of using common sense.
The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.
I don't defend the idea of universal love. It has never existed and will never exist.
All the scheming and plotting in the world won't result in something lasting, transcendent. Anything that's authentic, that's real, comes in the form of a gift. Even if by accident.
Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.
We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.
There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close.
The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.
What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?
There is relationship between sight and touch, something about eyes being able to see through the fingers touching the clay, about fingers being able to feel what the eyes are seeing without the fingers actually touching it.