For human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque body from which words are born.
Jose SaramagoThe best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.
Jose SaramagoWe know that happiness is short-lived, that we fail to cherish it when it is within our grasp and value it only when it has vanished forever.
Jose Saramago