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1922–2010 Portugal
José de Sousa Saramago, GColSE (16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese novelist, poet, playwright and journalist. In 1995, he won the Camões Prize, and in 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Portugal Nobel laureates Novelists Playwrights Poets Also known as: José de Sousa Saramago, Saramago, All the Names, Baltasar and Blimunda (1982), Blindness (1995), The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (1991)
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Each part in itself constitutes the whole to which it belongs.
The Cave (2000)
There is nothing that is truly free nor democratic enough. Make no mistake, the internet did not come to save the world.
The worst thing about death is that you once were, and now you are not.
To hope, Hope in what, Hope, just hope, one reaches a point where there is nothing but hope, and that is when we discover that hope is everything.
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1993)
Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
Blindness (1995)
It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene.
The universe has no news of our existence.
Do you want me to tell you what I think, Yes, do, I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.
Blindness (1995)
Doesn't anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer?
Destiny isn’t taken in by people trying to make what came first come afterwards.
The Cave (2000)
I write to try to understand, and because I have nothing better to do.
The emptiness of old age had caused him to forget that, in matters of feeling and of the heart, too much is always better than too little.
The Cave (2000)
That night the blind man dreamt that he was blind.
Blindness (1995)
None of his colleagues noticed who had arrived, they responded to his greetings as they always did, Good morning, Senhor José, they said and they did not know to whom they were speaking.
All the Names (1997)
Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.
Nobel Lecture (1998)
The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.
The Stone Raft (1994)
Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.
All the Names (1997)
After all, we are always on time, behind time, in time, but never out of time, no matter how often we are told that we are.
The Cave (2000)
I think that we do not deserve life, I think that religions have been and continue to be instruments of domination and death.
Now we live in the empire of oil and money — the rest is disguise.
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