José Saramago citáty
José Saramago
Datum narození: 26. listopad 1928
Datum úmrtí: 18. červen 2008
José de Sousa Saramago byl portugalský spisovatel, dramatik a novinář; dosud je jediným portugalským nositelem Nobelovy ceny za literaturu.
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„Besides the conversation of women, it is dreams that keep the world in orbit.“
— José Saramago
Context: 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.
p. 107
„Men, forgive Him, for He knows not what He has done.“
— José Saramago
Context: 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.
p. 347; Jesus' last words from the cross.
„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
p. 14 (Vintage 2003)
„The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. At four o'clock in the morning, when the promise of a new day still lingered over French lands, he got up from his pallet and left for the fields, taking to pasture the half-dozen pigs whose fertility nourished him and his wife...“
— José Saramago
Referring to his grandfather, Jerónimo Meirinho.
„Earthenware is like people, it needs to be well treated.“
— José Saramago
p. 21 (Vintage 2003)
„Yes [death has become a taboo]. Today people want to avoid the subject and hide the deaths that happen around them. It is as if the world were a hotel where the dead usually disappear at night, without any guest being able to notice their presence. While movies and television address death, they do not touch the fundamental point of finitude. The deaths are false, the good guys get shot and come back to life. It's another way of treating death as unreal.“
— José Saramago
ÉPOCA Interview (in Portuguese) http://revistaepoca.globo.com/Epoca/0,6993,EPT1061569-1666-2,00.html, São Paulo, 2005.
„Lord knows why they depict death with wings when death is everywhere.“
— José Saramago
p. 112 (Vintage 2003)
