Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.
Jose SaramagoWill we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins.
Jose SaramagoEverything in this world can volunteer some reply, what takes up time is posing the questions.
Jose SaramagoThe distribution of tasks among the various employees follows a simple rule, which is that the duty of the members of each category is to do as much work as they possibly can, so that only a small part of that work need be passed to the category above. This means that the clerks are obliged to work without cease from morning to night, whereas the senior clerks do so only now and then, the deputies very rarely, and the Registrar almost never.
Jose Saramago