"Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are."
— Jose Saramago

"...but it is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if, before every action, we were to begin weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probably, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt."
— Jose Saramago

"We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other."
— Jose Saramago