I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.
Jose SaramagoYou never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.
Jose SaramagoNothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction.
Jose SaramagoThere are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.
Jose SaramagoWhether 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.
Jose SaramagoThe beginning is never the clear, precise end of a thread, the beginning is a long, painfully slow process that requires time and patience in order to find out in which direction it is heading, a process that feels its way along the path ahead like a blind man the beginning is just the beginning, what came before is nigh on worthless.
Jose Saramago