José Saramago citáty
José Saramago
Datum narození: 16. listopad 1922
Datum úmrtí: 18. červen 2010
José de Sousa Saramago byl portugalský spisovatel, dramatik a novinář; dosud je jediným portugalským nositelem Nobelovy ceny za literaturu.
Citáty José Saramago
„Kdybych umřel v 60, nic bych nenapsal.“
Originál: (en) I had died when I was 60, I would have written nothing.
Zdroj: [Hopkinson, Amanda, José Saramago obituary, guardian.co.uk, 2010-06-18, 2010-06-19, http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jun/18/jose-saramago-obituary]
„So often we need a whole lifetime in order to change our life, we think a great deal, weigh things up and vacillate, then we go back to the beginning, we think and think, we displace ourselves on the tracks of time with a circular movement, like those clouds of dust, dead leaves, debris, that have no strength for anything more, better by far that we should live in a land of hurricanes.“
— José Saramago, kniha The Stone Raft
The Stone Raft (1994)
„Each part in itself constitutes the whole to which it belongs.“
— José Saramago, kniha The Cave
Zdroj: The Cave (2000), p. 68 (Vintage 2003)
„There is relationship between sight and touch, something about eyes being able to see through the fingers touching the clay, about fingers being able to feel what the eyes are seeing without the fingers actually touching it.“
— José Saramago, kniha The Cave
Zdroj: The Cave (2000), p. 20 (Vintage 2003)
„Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.“
— José Saramago, kniha Blindness
Dentro de nós há uma coisa que não tem nome, essa coisa é o que somos.
Zdroj: Blindness (1995), p. 276
„God is the silence of the universe, and man is the cry that gives meaning to that silence.“
Deus é o silêncio do universo, e o homem o grito que dá um sentido a esse silêncio.
Lanzarote Notebooks (1990), quoted in The Notebook, entry for 9 October 2008.
„Men, forgive Him, for He knows not what He has done.“
— José Saramago, kniha The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
Zdroj: The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (1991), p. 347; Jesus' last words from the cross.
Kontext: Jesus then realized he had been brought here under false pretences, as the lamb is led to sacrifice and that his life had been planned for death since the very beginning. Remembering the river of blood and suffering that would flow from his side and flood the entire earth, he called out to the open sky where God could be seen smiling, Men, forgive Him, for He knows not what He has done.
„Besides the conversation of women, it is dreams that keep the world in orbit.“
— José Saramago, kniha Baltasar and Blimunda
Zdroj: Baltasar and Blimunda (1982), p. 107
Kontext: Besides the conversation of women, it is dreams that keep the world in orbit. But dreams also form a diadem of moons, therefore the sky is that splendour inside a man's head, if his head is not, in fact, his own unique sky.
„There comes a point when the confused or abused person hears a voice saying in his head, Oh well, might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb, and, depending on the particular situation in which he finds him he either spends his last bit of money on a lottery ticket, or places on the gaming table the watch he inherited from his father and silver cigarette case that was a gift from his mother, or bets everything he has on red even though he knows that red has come up five times in a row“
— José Saramago, kniha The Cave
Zdroj: The Cave (2000), p. 14 (Vintage 2003)
„From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything is discussed in our world. But the democratic system, as if it were a given fact, untouchable by nature until the end of time, we don't discuss that.“
Intervention in the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, February of 1992; quoted in Las leyes antidiscriminatorias en el Mercosur: Impactos de la III conferencia mundial contra el racismo, la discriminación racial, la xenofobia y las formas conexas de intolerancia, Durban, 2001: informe sobre el seminario realizado en Montevideo, 29 y 30 de abril de 2002. Published by Organizaciones Mundo Afro, 2002 163 pages.
„We live in a very peculiar world. Democracy isn't discussed, as if it was taken for granted, as if democracy had taken God's place, who is also not discussed.“
Quoted in Evans, 2002, p. 13, as reported in Fundamentals of action research, Vol. I (2005), p. 305.
„I don’t doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I’m convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him.“
— José Saramago, kniha The Cave
Zdroj: The Cave (2000), p. 29 (Vintage 2003)
„None of his colleagues noticed who had arrived, they responded to his greetings as they always did, Good morning, Senhor José, they said and they did not know to whom they were speaking.“
— José Saramago, kniha All the Names
Zdroj: All the Names (1997), p. 16
„No, there are three people in a marriage, there's the woman, there's the man, and there's what I call the third person, the most important, the person who is composed of the man and woman together.“
— José Saramago, kniha All the Names
The woman in the ground floor flat; p. 48
All the Names (1997)
„The human being should be the absolute priority. It seems it is more important to reach the planet Mars than prevent 13 million Africans dying of hunger. Why would I want to know if there is water on Mars if we are polluting the water here on Earth, or doing nothing to avoid it? Priorities need to be redefined, but there is no chance of this, if we don't confront the need to know what democracy is.“
Quoted in New African (IC Magazines Limited, 2003), p. 25.
