The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.
Jose SaramagoIt is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from scratch.
Jose SaramagoWe know that happiness is short-lived, that we fail to cherish it when it is within our grasp and value it only when it has vanished forever.
Jose SaramagoI presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet.
Jose Saramago