... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.
Jose SaramagoThat is the dream of all novelists-that one of their characters will become 'somebody.'
Jose SaramagoWe never consider that the things dogs know about us are things of which we have not the faintest notion.
Jose SaramagoWe are finally living in Plato's cave, if we consider how those who were imprisoned within the cave - who could do nothing but watch those shadows passing on the back wall - were convinced that those shadows were their one and only reality. I see a profound similarity to all this in the epoch we're now living in. We no longer live simply through images: we live through images that don't even exist, which are the result not of physical projection but of pure virtuality.
Jose SaramagoSome people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters...
Jose Saramago