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“Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.”
José Saramago, Death with Interruptions
“One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.”
José Saramago, Death with Interruptions
“Even death, faced with the option of death or life, she would choose life.”
José Saramago, Death with Interruptions
“We never consider that the things dogs know about us are things of which we have not the faintest notion.”
José Saramago, Death with Interruptions
“Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own aristocratic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.”
José Saramago, Death with Interruptions
“That's how life is, what it gives with one hand one day, it takes away with the other.”
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“كانت جميلة, ربما ليست الأجمل بين الحضور الأنثوي, ولكنها جميلة بصورة غير محددة, بصورة خاصة, لا يمكن شرحها بالكلمات, مثل بيت شعر يفلت معناه من المترجم, إذا كان ثمة وجود لهذا الشيء في بيت شعر.”
José Saramago, Death with Interruptions
“However hard he tried, he could never manage to make himself visible to human eyes and not because he can't, since for him nothing is impossible, it's simply that he wouldn't know what face to wear when introducing himself to the beings he supposedly created and who probably wouldn't recognize him anyway. There are those who say we're very fortunate that god chooses not to appear before us, because compared with the shock we would get were such a thing to happen, our fear of death would be mere child's play. Besides, all the many things that have been said about god and about death are nothing but stories, and this is just another one.”
José Saramago, Death with Interruptions
“… la muerte, por sí misma, sola, sin ninguna ayuda exterior, siempre ha matado mucho menos que el hombre.”
José Saramago, Death with Interruptions
“الموت أفضل سيدي .. الموت أفضل من هذا المصير”
José Saramago, Death with Interruptions
“When I think about it, I have no idea who you are, but that's not important, what matters is that we care about each other.”
José Saramago, Death with Interruptions
“الحذر لا يفيد إلا في تأخير ما لا يمكن تجنبه.”
José Saramago, Death with Interruptions
“The church has never been asked to explain anything, our specialty, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralization of the overly curious mind through faith,”
José Saramago, Death With Interruptions
“Have you ever wondered if death is the same for all living beings, be they animals, human beings included, or plants, from the grass you walk on to the hundred-meter-tall sequoiadendron giganteum, will the death that kills a man who knows he's going to die be the same as that of a horse who never will.”
José Saramago, Death with Interruptions
“Algunas personas usan coraza, otras misterios”
José Saramago, Las intermitencias de la muerte
“Everything that will happen will happen...and if you don't get to see it.. It will be because we didn't live long enough”
José Saramago, Death with Interruptions
“parece que não vês que as palavras são rótulos que se pegam às cousas, não são as cousas, nunca saberás como são as cousas, nem sequer que nomes são na realidade os seus, porque os nomes que lhes deste não são mais do que isso, os nomes que lhes deste”
José Saramago, Death with Interruptions
“As mãos são dois livros abertos, não pelas razões, supostas ou autênticas, da quiromancia, com as suas linhas do coração e da vida, da vida, meus senhores, ouviram bem, da vida, mas porque falam quando se abrem ou se fecham, quando acariciam ou golpeiam, quando enxugam uma lágrima ou disfarçam um sorriso, quando se pousam sobre um ombro ou acenam um adeus, quando trabalham, quando estão quietas, quando dormem, quando despertam.”
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“because, sir, in case you don't know it, words move, they change from one day to the next, they are as unstable as shadows, are themselves shadows, which both are and have ceased to be, soap bubbles, shells in which one can barely hear a whisper, mere tree stumps,”
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“You might think that after all the shameful capitulations made by the government during the ups and downs of their negotiations with the maphia ... they could sink no lower. Alas, when one advances blindly across the boggy ground of realpolitik, when pragmatism takes up the baton and conducts the orchestra, ignoring what is written in the score, you can be pretty sure that, as the imperative logic of dishonor will show, there are still, after all, a few more steps to descend.”
José Saramago, Death with Interruptions
“a vida é uma orquestra que sempre está tocando, afinada, desafinada, um paquete titanic que sempre se afunda e sempre volta à superfície”
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“É para isso mesmo que nós existimos, para que as pessoas levem toda a vida com o medo pendurado ao pescoço e, chegada a sua hora, acolham a morte como uma libertação.”
José Saramago, Death with Interruptions
“الحقيقة ان العالم اكثر من متخم بحوادث مثل هذة ، هو انتظر و هي تخلفت ، هي انتظرت و هو لم يأت ، و في العمق ، و ليبق هذا بيننا نحن الارتيابيين و الجاحدين ، هذا افضل من كسر في الساق”
José Saramago, Death with Interruptions
“À igreja nunca se lhe pediu que explicasse fosse o que fosse, a nossa outra especialidade, além da balística, tem sido neutralizar, pela fé, o espírito curioso.”
José Saramago, Death with Interruptions
“A morte conhece tudo a nosso respeito, e talvez por isso seja triste. Se é certo que nunca sorri, é só porque lhe faltam os lábios, e esta lição anatômica nos diz que, ao contrário do que os vivos julgam, o sorriso não é uma questão de dentes.”
José Saramago, Death with Interruptions
“As religiões, todas elas, por mais voltas que lhes dermos, não têm outra justificação para existir que não seja a morte, precisam dela como do pão para a boca.”
José Saramago, Death with Interruptions
“La muerte está enfadada. Es el momento de sacarle la lengua.”
José Saramago, Death with Interruptions
“الحياة هي أوركسترا في عزف متواصل، عزف متناسق أو نشاز، هي تايتنك تغرق باستمرار و تعود علي الدوام إلي السطح”
جوزيه ساراماجو, Death with Interruptions
“É assim a vida, vai dando com uma mão até que chega o dia em que tira tudo com a outra.”
José Saramago, Death with Interruptions
“كلمات كثيرة من أجل شئ وحيد كئيب،إنها عادة هؤلاء البشر،فهم لا يقولون أبدا مايريدون قوله دفعة واحدة.”
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