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José Saramago


Born
in Golegã, Azinhaga, Portugal
November 16, 1922

Died
June 18, 2010

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Genre
Literature & Fiction, Theatre

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Franz Kafka, Ernesto Sabato, Machado de Assis, Eça de Queirós, Jorge L ...more


Novels of especially noted Portuguese writer José Saramago, include Country of Sin (1947) and The Stone Raft (1986); people awarded him the Nobel Prize of 1998 for literature.

The most important among nations of the last century, he in his sixties then came to prominence with the publication of Baltasar and Blimunda . A huge body of work followed, translated into more than forty languages.

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"José e Pilar. Conversas inéditas" XII

Mi compasión está con los que están trabajando de sol a sol, por un salario miserable, también en Portugal y también en España, explotados por empresarios que van a misa y se dan golpes de pecho. Pilar del Río In José e Pilar. Conversas inéditas, Pág. 178
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“If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?”
― José Saramago, Blindness
tags: regret, regrets, sincerity
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“Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts”
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“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”
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