Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thought… - José Saramago

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

José Saramago

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About José Saramago

José de Sousa Saramago, GColSE (16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese novelist, poet, playwright and journalist. In 1995, he won the Camões Prize, and in 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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This Jerónimo, my grandfather, swineherd and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the trees in the yard, one by one, embracing them and crying because he knew he wouldn't see them again.

To hope, Hope in what, Hope, just hope, one reaches a point where there is nothing but hope, and that is when we discover that hope is everything.

The only time we can talk about death is while we’re alive, not afterwards.

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

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