all stories are like those about the creation of the universe, no one was there, no one witnessed anything, yet everyone knows what happened.
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 Saramago... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.
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 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