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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.

— José Saramago

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The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.

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If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?

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Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.

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Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.

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At this time of life even a day makes a difference, the only saving grace is that sometimes things improve.

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It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

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The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

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