The day before is what we bring to the day we're actually living through, life is a matter of carrying along all those days-before just as someone might carry stones, and when we can no longer cope with the load, the work is done, the last day is the only one that is not the day before another day.
Jose SaramagoThe novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
Jose SaramagoEverything in this world can volunteer some reply, what takes up time is posing the questions.
Jose Saramago