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.
Jose Saramago...the habit of falling hardens the body, reaching the ground, to in itself, is a relief.
Jose SaramagoI always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?
Jose SaramagoBlessed be the night, which conceals and protects things fair and foul with the same indifferent mantle.
Jose SaramagoWe live in a very peculiar world. Democracy isn't discussed, as if it was taken for granted, as if democracy had taken God's place, who is also not discussed.
Jose SaramagoEvery second that passes is like a door that opens to allow in what has not yet happened, what we call the future, but, to challenge the contradictory nature of what we have just said, perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the future is just an immense void, that the future is just the time on which the eternal present feeds.
Jose Saramago