109 quotes
To me, the Bible is a book. Important, no doubt, but a book.
But there is another way to speak of all this.
Raised from the Ground (1980)
A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book, when I finished: 'This is a book about Alentejo'.
Worse still if that sameness should ever become total.
The Double (2002)
Time is a master of ceremonies who always ends up putting us in our rightful place, we advance, stop and retreat according to his orders, our mistake lies in imagination that we can catch him out.
The Cave (2000)
I believe that I've been asked all possible questions. I, myself, if I were a journalist, would not know what to ask me.
Deep down, I don't create anything. I'm just someone who simply lifts a rock and exposes what's beneath it. It's not my fault that monsters come out some times.
We would know far more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to the close study of its contradictions instead of wasting so much time on similarities and connections, which should anyway, be self-explanatory.
The Cave (2000)
Death is the inventor of God.
If you can see, look. If you can look, observe.
Blindness (1995)
In general, fakirs, like scribes and potters, are sitting down, when he’s standing up, a fakir is just like an other man, and sitting down, he’ll be smaller than the others
The Cave (2000)
Life is like that, full of words that are not worth saying or that were worth saying once but not any more, each word that we utter will take up the space of another more deserving word not deserving in its own right, but because of the possible consequences of saying it.
The Cave (2000)
Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can.
If I could repeat my childhood, I would repeat it exactly as it was, with the poverty, the cold, little food, with the flies and pigs, all that.
No dia seguinte, ninguém morreu.
Death with Interruptions (2005)
I'm not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where people live so badly, nature is being destroyed and the dominant empire is money?
Jesus then realized he had been brought here under false pretences, as the lamb is led to sacrifice and that his life had been planned for death since the very beginning. Remembering the river of blood and suffering that would flow from his side and flood the entire earth, he called out to the open sky where God could be seen smiling, Men, forgive Him, for He knows not what He has done.
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (1991)
By the way, we feel we must mention that death, by herself and alone, with no external help, has always killed far less than mankind has.
Death with Interruptions (2005)
No life is without its lies.
All the Names (1997)
There is relationship between sight and touch, something about eyes being able to see through the fingers touching the clay, about fingers being able to feel what the eyes are seeing without the fingers actually touching it.
The Cave (2000)