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José Saramagoauthor profile |
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| born | November 16, 1922 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| gender | male | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Azinhaga, Ribatejo, Portugal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| genre | Literature & Fiction | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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about this author
Awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, commended for being an author "who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." |
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books by José Saramagocombine editionsavg rating: 3.97 | 14282 ratings | 76 distinct works
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quotes by José Saramago
"Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are."
— José Saramago
— José 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."
— José Saramago
— José Saramago
"We say Fine, even though we may be dying, and this is commonly known as taking one's courage in both hands, a phenomenon that has only been observed in the human species."
— José Saramago
— José Saramago