Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt. Some say that the main cause of this very serious difficulty lies in the fact that human beings are basically made of clay, which, as the encyclopedias helpfully explain, is a detrital sedimentary rock made up of tiny mineral fragments measuring one two hundred and fifty-sixths of a millimeter. Until now, despite long linguistic study, no one has managed to come up with a name for this.
José SaramagoTags: language vocabulary
A person is not like a thing that you put down in one place and leave, a person moves, thinks, asks, questions, doubts, investigates, probes, and while it is true that, out of a long habit of resignation, he sooner or later ends up looking as if he has submitted to the objects, don't go thinking that this apparent submission is necessarily permanent.
José SaramagoTags: growth complacency
... we are only ever pretending to ourselves, never to other people ...
José SaramagoTags: truth
There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close.
José SaramagoTags: choices
Even death, faced with the option of death or life, she would choose life.
José SaramagoI have yet to hear a single idea that was worth considering for longer than it took us to listen to it.
José SaramagoE inoltre il miracolo, proprio il miracolo, per quanto ci dicano, non è mica una cosa buona, se bisogna piegare la logica e la ragione intima delle cose per renderle migliori.
José Saramago(...) o espírito não vai a lado nenhum sem as pernas do corpo, e o corpo não seria capaz de mover-se se lhe faltassem as asas do espírito.
José SaramagoA quien tal vez no veamos más, o tal vez sí, porque la vida se ríe de las perversiones y pone palabras donde imaginábamos silencios y súbitos regresos cuando pensábamos que no volveríamos a encontrarnos.
José Saramago!ما أصعب أن يكون المرء مبصراً في مجتمع أعمى
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