Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974.
Jose SaramagoEn ningรบn momento de la historia, en ningรบn lugar del planeta, las religiones han servido para que los seres humanos se acerquen unos a los otros. Por el contrario, sรณlo han servido para separar, para quemar, para torturar. No creo en dios, no lo necesito y ademรกs soy buena persona.
Jose SaramagoThe period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975.
Jose SaramagoVery few people are aware that in each of our fingers, located somewhere between the firs phalange, the mesophalange and the metaphalange, there is a tiny brain... It should be noted that fingers are without brains, these develop gradually with the passage of time and with the help of what the eyes see... That is why the fingers have always excelled at uncovering what is concealed.
Jose Saramago