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Quotes from All the Names — José Saramago

1922–2010 Portugal

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14 quotes

What the eye doesn’t see the heart doesn’t grieve over.

All the Names (1997)

In order to protect the physical hygiene and mental health of the living, we usually bury the dead.

All the Names (1997)

That it’s possible not to see a lie even when it’s in front of us.

All the Names (1997)

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)

Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.

All the Names (1997)

The caressing, melodious tones of humility and flattery never sang in the ears of the clerk Senhor José, these have never had a place in the chromatic scale of feelings normally shown to him.

All the Names (1997)

No, there are three people in a marriage, there's the woman, there's the man, and there's what I call the third person, the most important, the person who is composed of the man and woman together.

All the Names (1997)

No life is without its lies.

All the Names (1997)

[...], indeed nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction.

All the Names (1997)

a waiting, stagnant darkness, thick and silent as the ocean deeps

All the Names (1997)

[...], perhaps that's how you learn, by answering questions.

All the Names (1997)

You know the name you were given,
You do not know the name you have

All the Names (1997)

[...] the skin is only what we want others to see of us, underneath it not even we know who we are, [...]

All the Names (1997)

when you are old and realize that time is running out, you start imagining that you have the cure for all the ills of the world in your hand, and get frustrated because no one pays you any attention

All the Names (1997)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: José Saramago (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.