When we are born, when we enter this world, it is as if we signed a pact for the rest of our life, but a day may come when we will ask ourselves Who signed this on my behalf?
Jose SaramagoAh, in every age there is always some new wonder to astound mankind until they grow accustomed to it and lose interest.
Jose SaramagoDignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning.
Jose SaramagoAt the end of the 1950s, I started working at a publishing company, Estudios Cor, as production manager, so returning, but not as an author, to the world of letters I had left some years before.
Jose SaramagoIf you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.
Jose SaramagoThe wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. At four o'clock in the morning, when the promise of a new day still lingered over French lands, he got up from his pallet and left for the fields, taking to pasture the half-dozen pigs whose fertility nourished him and his wife.
Jose Saramago