The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
Jose SaramagoBlessed be the night, which conceals and protects things fair and foul with the same indifferent mantle.
Jose SaramagoDeath is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.
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