José Saramago's most memorable quotes (with the book they come from)
The top 3 according to 54 votes from people: If you can look, see. If you can see, notice. · Inside us there is something that has no name, and that something is what we are. · Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions; decisions make us.. (Updated Mar 8, 2021.)
"If you can look, see. If you can see, notice", the true prison of accepting imprisonment and the decisions that make us: the most quoted lines of José Saramago, from Blindness, The Cave, Baltasar and Blimunda and other books.
Automatically translated (original in Português). See the original
Top 14
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1
If you can look, see. If you can see, notice.
Epigraph of Blindness (1995).
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2
Inside us there is something that has no name, and that something is what we are.
Blindness (1995).
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3
Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions; decisions make us.
All the Names (1997).
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4
The true prison is accepting being imprisoned.
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1984).
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5
We always arrive at the place where we are expected.
The Elephant's Journey (2008).
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6
Youth does not know what it can do, and old age cannot do what it knows.
The Cave (2000).
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7
Two weaknesses do not make a greater weakness; they make a new strength.
The Cave (2000).
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8
If I am a pessimist, it is because the world is terrible, that is all.
In an interview, denying the pessimism attributed to him.
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9
That is life: it keeps giving with one hand until the day comes when it takes everything with the other.
Death with Interruptions (2005).
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10
I think we did not go blind, I think we are blind, blind people who can see, blind people who, seeing, do not see.
Blindness (1995).
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Death knows everything about us, and perhaps that is why it is sad.
Death with Interruptions (2005).
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12
The things that seem to have passed are the ones that never finish passing.
The Cave (2000).
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13
The traveller is not a tourist, he is a traveller. There is a big difference. To travel is to discover; the rest is simply finding.
Journey to Portugal (1981).
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14
Men are angels born without wings; it is the most beautiful thing, to be born without wings and make them grow.
Baltasar and Blimunda (1982).
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