The 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 SaramagoEvery novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been established whether it is the novel that prevents man from forgetting himself or the impossibility of forgetfulness that makes him write novels.
Jose SaramagoSuch is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us.
Jose SaramagoAh, in every age there is always some new wonder to astound mankind until they grow accustomed to it and lose interest.
Jose SaramagoNo human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.
Jose Saramago