There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.
Jose Saramagojust like everything else in life, let time take its course and it will find a solution.
Jose SaramagoThis must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say so, and yet unable to see it.
Jose Saramago...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless we escape from ourselves you mean, No, that's not the same thing.
Jose SaramagoThis is the effect of panic, a natural effect, you could say that animal nature is like this, plant life would behave in exactly the same way, too, if it did not have all those roots to hold it in the ground, and how nice it would be to see the trees of the forest fleeing the flames.
Jose SaramagoThe only miracle we can perform is to go on living, said the woman, to preserve the fragility of life from day to day, as if it were blind and did not know where to go, and perhaps it is like that, perhaps it really does not know, it placed itself in our hands, after giving us intelligence.
Jose Saramago