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| db2f0b0 | indeed it is in the General Cemetery that the results of progress are set out before the eyes of the studious or the merely curious, there are even those who say that a cemetery like this is a kind of library which contains not books but buried people, it really doesn't matter, you can learn as much from people as from books. | José Saramago | ||
| 482e6ea | Contrary to popular belief, the helpful words that open the way to great, dramatic dialogues are, in general, modest, ordinary, banal, no one would think that Would you like a cup of coffee could serve as an introduction to a bitter debate about feelings that have died or to the sweetness of a reconciliation that neither person knows how to bring about. | José Saramago | ||
| 034f557 | debajo de las palabras que dices, me parece escuchar otras que callas | José Saramago | ||
| 4289de3 | There might be a problem, What is that, Minister, We shall find ourselves obliged to put staff there to supervise the transfers, and I doubt whether we will be able to count on volunteers, I doubt whether that will be necessary, Minister, Why, Should anyone suspected of infection turn blind, as will naturally happen sooner or later, you may be sure, Minister, that the others who still have their sight, will turn him out at once, You're righ.. | José Saramago | ||
| 780d3d2 | lnWdhwr l twfW~ dy'man, 'Hynan bsbb lDGf, w'Hynan 'khr~ bsbb qw@in khrq@in lm nkn nHsb Hsbh. | José Saramago | ||
| 42de00e | bonita de um modo indefinivel, particular, nao explicavel por palavras, como um verso cujo sentido ultimo, se e que tal coisa existe num verso, continuamente escapa ao tradutor. | José Saramago | ||
| 41e22de | Nunca se puede saber de antemano de que son capaces las personas, hay que esperar, dar tiempo al tiempo, el tiempo es el que manda, el tiempo es quien esta jugando al otro lado de la mesa y tiene en su mano todas las cartas de la baraja, a nosotros nos corresponde inventar los encartes con la vida, la nuestra... | José Saramago | ||
| 9b92ed4 | This was probably my biggest mistake: to think that the truth could be captured externally and simply with one's eyes, to imagine a truth exists which can be grasped at once and thereafter remain still and at peace, just like a statue, a truth which contracts and expands depending on the temperature, a truth which eventually erodes, not only modifying the surrounding space but subtly altering thhe composition of the ground on which it stand.. | José Saramago | ||
| 5c1874c | I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see. | José Saramago | ||
| cc6e1b0 | Blindness was spreading, not like a sudden tide flooding everything and carrying all before it, but like an insidious infiltration of a thousand and one turbulent rivulets which, having slowly drenched the earth, suddenly submerge it completely. | José Saramago | ||
| a44f5a0 | In the girl's room on the chest of drawers stood the glass vase with the withered flowers, the water had evaporated, it was there that her blind hands directed themselves, her fingers brushed against the dead petals, how fragile life is when it is abandoned. | José Saramago | ||
| 8f6ad54 | the church I mentioned will be established, but its foundation, in order to be truly solid, will be dug in flesh, its walls made from the cement of renunciation, tears, agony, anguish, every conceivable form of death. | religion | José Saramago | |
| 91ca18a | no one has an obligation to love anyone else, but we are all under an obligation to respect each other. According to this logic, Saramago considered | José Saramago | ||
| fa476b4 | nqwl lfqdy lrd@ , mn 'rd stT` , wk'n wqy'` l`lm lmry`@ l ttlh~ fy kl ywm `ks dll@ l'f`l lnsby@ wqlbh r's `l~ `qb , nqwl llmtrddyn , bd' mn lbdy@ , wk'n tlk lbdy@ hy lTrf lmry'y dwm mn khyT syy' ltshbk ykfy sHbh wmwSl@ sHbh mn 'jl lwSwl l~ Trfh lakhr , Trf lnhy@ ,wkm lw 'n byn 'ydyn byn lTrf l'wl wlthny , khyT n`m mtwSl lm ykn `lyn Hl `qd fyh wfk tshbkt , whw 'mr mstHyl fy Hy@ kb@ khywT lHy@ . | José Saramago | ||
| 9719786 | The blind inmates advanced like archangels surrounded by their own splendour. | José Saramago | ||
| 944fe32 | Joao Elvas wrapped his cloak tightly around him, tucked up his legs as if he were still in his mother's womb, and snoozed in the warmth of the hay, which gave off a pleasant odour generated by the heat of his body. There are refined men and women, and sometimes not all that refined, who cannot bear such odours and who take great pains to cover any traces of their natural smell, and the day will come when artificial roses will be sprayed wit.. | José Saramago | ||
| 234b2e6 | Tlm kn l`rk, l~ hdh lHd 'w dhk, shklan mn l`m~. | José Saramago | ||
| 1e06808 | 'n ljnwn fy lnsn njm `n STdm lnsn bdhky'h dhth | José Saramago | ||
| 9b49322 | hdh m nqwlh `ndm l nryd l`b dwr lD`f ljsdy , nqwl nn bkhyr , Ht~ lw kn nHtDr ! | José Saramago | ||
| 0fb2a4e | They had their past to remember, the present to live in and the future to fear. | José Saramago | ||
| 7403bf9 | We are so afraid of the idea of having to die, said the doctor's wife, that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn, | José Saramago | ||
| 8675553 | A writer is just like anyone else, he cannot know everything, nor can he experience everything, he must ask and imagine, | José Saramago | ||
| b138194 | if, before every action, we were to begin by weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probable, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt. | José Saramago | ||
| 23e390f | And then there are colors. The truth is that the brain knows far less about colors than one might suppose. It sees more or less clearly what the eyes show it, but when it comes to converting what it has seen into knowledge, it often suffers from one might call difficulties in orientation. Thanks to the unconscious confidence of a lifetime's experience, it unhesitatingly utters the names of the colors it calls elementary and complementary, b.. | José Saramago | ||
| f95d686 | Nao tenhamos pressa, mas nao percamos tempo. | time-passing life-lesson | José Saramago | |
| 79efba4 | ndm twjh lTby`@ lbshry@ lmwt ytwq` mnh 'n ytlsh~Hqdh wsmh. | José Saramago | ||
| 9d5d798 | Lisboa cheira mal, cheira a podridao, o incenso da um sentido a fetidez, o mal e dos corpos, que a alma, essa, e perfumada. | José Saramago | ||
| b3b2ae0 | Then he summarised the news-items in his own words, and transmitted them to his immediate neighbours. And so from bed to bed, the news slowly circulated round the ward, increasingly distorted as it was passes on from one inmate to the next, in this way diminishing or exaggerating the details, according to the personal optimism or pessimism of those relaying the information. | José Saramago | ||
| 7df12e1 | They always left the thermos full, ready for their return home. The five minutes devoted to that small late-night feast made them feel rather special, as if they had suddenly left the mediocrity of their lives behind them and risen a few rungs on the economic ladder. The kitchen disappeared and gave way to an intimate little drawing room with expensive furniture and paintings on the wall and a piano in one corner. | José Saramago | ||
| 3799a14 | Now don't run away." "I'm not. I learned to see beyond the soles of these shoes. I learned that behind this wretched life we lead there is a great ideal, a great hope. I learned that each individual life should be guided by that hope and by that ideal. And people who don't feel that must have died before they were born." He smiled and added, "Those aren't my words. It's something I heard someone else say years ago." "In your view ,then, I b.. | useful ideals | José Saramago | |
| 5560065 | Todos nos sofremos duma doenca, duma doenca basica, digamos assim, esta que e inseparavel do que somos e que, duma certa maneira, faz aquilo que somos, se nao seria mais exacto dizer que cada um de nos e a sua doenca, por causa dela somos tao pouco, tambem por causa dela conseguimos ser tanto, entre uma coisa e outra venha o diabo e escolha, tambem se costuma dizer (...) | José Saramago | ||
| e9bf96c | I still have the strength to carry the bread I eat, What always weighs more is the bread of the others, | José Saramago | ||
| 35f8936 | Everyone wants to save Man, but no one wants to know about men. | José Saramago | ||
| 21d3902 | nHn fy lwq` l ntkhdh lqrrt, wnm lqrrt hy lty ttkhdhn | José Saramago | ||
| 70d325c | He went plof and vanished. Onomatopoeia can be so very handy. Imagine if we'd had to provide a detailed description of someone disappearing. It would have taken us at least ten pages. Plof. | José Saramago | ||
| 7b85669 | fy kl `m fy twrykh mHdd@ yndy lwTn 'bnh. nh mqwl@ mblG fyh, Swr@ Tbq l'Sl mn b`D lsh`rt lmstkhdm@ fy lHZt 'zmt l'm@, 'w mn ytHdth bsmh, `ndm yrydwn, l'hdf m`rwf@ 'w mjhwl@, 'n nZhr k`y'l@ wHd@ mkwn@ mn 'khw@, bdwn 'y tmyyz byn qbyl whbyl. lwTn yndy 'bnh, wysm` Swt lwTn whw yndyhm, wyndyhm, w'nt y mn Ht~ lywm lm tstHq shyy'an, wl lkhbz ldhy ysd jw`k, wl ldw ldhy yshfy mrDk, wl lm`rf@ lty tmHy jhlk, 'nt y bn hdhh l'm@ lty Zlt tntZrk mndh wldt.. | José Saramago | ||
| 630dd80 | As velas sao os musculos do barco, basta ver como incham quando se esforcam, mas, e isso mesmo sucede aos musculos, se nao se lhes da uso regularmente, abrandam, amolecem, perdem nervo. | José Saramago | ||
| 23a7fb8 | klm zd ltHdyq tDlt lrw'y@ | José Saramago | ||
| 73e5621 | Ht~ l'ms kn hnk 'ns ymwtwn wlm ykn ykhTr lbl 'Hd 'n ykwn dhlk mthyran llr`b, hdh 'mr mnTqy, flmwt 'mr `dy wl ythyr lmwt lr`b l `ndm ytkthr... | الموت-المنية | José Saramago | |
| e63f4e7 | E inoltre il miracolo, proprio il miracolo, per quanto ci dicano, non e mica una cosa buona, se bisogna piegare la logica e la ragione intima delle cose per renderle migliori. | José Saramago | ||
| c2cc955 | en verdad aun esta por nacer el primer ser humano desprovisto de esa segunda piel a la que llamamos egoismo, mucho mas dura que la otra, que por cualquier cosa sangra. | José Saramago | ||
| c355052 | There is a longing for a supposedly simple and virtuous past that is almost universal among the people of a complex and vicious society. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 5aba6d5 | Often, this has only meant a change in tyranny. In other words, one ruling class is replaced by another--sometimes by one that is more efficient and therefore still more capable of maintaining itself--while the poor and downtrodden remain poor and downtrodden or become even worse off. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| c3775f6 | Perasa autes tis duo meres exetazontas entatika ton eauto mou", eipe o Kiouti, "kai ta sumperasmata etan polu endiapheronta. Arkhisa apo ten mone bebaie upothese pou nomiza oti mporousa na kano. Ego o idios uparkho, epeide skeptomai". O Paouel anastenaxe: "O, Thee mou,o Kartesios rompot"." | Isaac Asimov |