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„Познавать мир лишь в той его части, до которой можно дотянуться, не выходя за порог, то бишь в словах, образах да иллюзиях.“

цветок
Источник: афоризмы

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„Беседа больше не могла ходить кругами у черного колодца, скрывающего истину.“

иллюзия
Источник: романы

Эта цитата ждет обзора.

„Библия — это учебник безнравственности, до сих пор оказывающий вредное влияние на нашу культуру. Без неё мы были бы другими — и, вероятно, были бы лучше.“

колодец
Источник: романы

“Worse still if that sameness should ever become total.”

На обеде, данном по поводу выхода его романа «Каин».

Жозе Сарамаго: Цитаты на английском языке

“Then Jesus slowly turned to look at her and said, I have never been with a woman. Mary held his hands, This is how everyone has to begin, men who have never known a woman, women who have never known a man, until the day comes for the one who knows to teach the one who does not.”

José Saramago книга The Double

The Double (2002)

“The past is an immense area of stony ground that many people would like to drive across as if it were a motorway, while others move patiently from stone to stone, lifting each one because they need to know what lies beneath. Sometimes scorpions crawl out or centipedes, fat white caterpillars or ripe chrysalises, but it's not impossible that, at least once, an elephant might appear…”

José Saramago книга The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

Então Jesus voltou lentamente o rosto para ela e disse. Não conheço mulher. Maria segurou-lhe as mãos, Assim temos de começar todos, homens que não conheciam mulher, mulheres que não conheciam homem, um dia o que sabia ensinou, o que não sabia aprendeu.
Источник: The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (1991), p. 235

“The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.”

José Saramago книга The Elephant's Journey

Источник: The Elephant's Journey (2008), p. 18

“To me, the Bible is a book. Important, no doubt, but a book.”

José Saramago книга The Cave

Источник: The Cave (2000), p. 89 (Vintage 2003)

“Age carries with it a double load of guilt”

Interview to the newspaper "O Globo", 2009.

“Very few people are aware that in each of our fingers, located somewhere between the firs phalange, the mesophalange and the metaphalange, there is a tiny brain. […] It should be noted that fingers are without brains, these develop gradually with the passage of time and with the help of what the eyes see…. That is why the fingers have always excelled at uncovering what is concealed.”

José Saramago книга The Cave

Источник: The Cave (2000), p. 69 (Vintage 2003)

“Every thing in life is a uniform; the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we’re naked.”

José Saramago книга The Cave

Источник: The Cave (2000), p. 64 (Vintage 2003)

“[T]here are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.”

José Saramago книга The Cave

Источник: The Cave (2000), p. 92 (Vintage 2003)

“God, the devil, good, evil, it's all in our heads, not in Heaven or Hell, which we also invented. We do not realize that, having invented God, we immediately became His slaves.”

José Saramago книга The Double

The Double (2002)

“Everything is discussed in this world, except for one thing: democracy. Democracy is not discussed. Democracy is there, as a kind of saint, from whom no miracles are expected, but that is there as a reference: "the democracy"; and we don’t notice that the democracy in which we live in is a kidnapped, conditioned and amputated one, because the power of the citizen, the power of each one of us, is limited, in the political sphere, I repeat, in the political sphere, to removing a government that we don’t like and replacing it by another one that we might come to like. Nothing else. But the important decisions are made in another sphere, and we all know which one it is. The great international financial organizations, the IMFs, the World Trade Organizations, the World Banks, the OECD, all of these… None of these institutions is democratic, so how can we continue to talk about democracy, if those who actually govern the world are not democratically elected by the people? Who chooses the countries' representatives in those institutions? Their respective peoples? No. So where is the democracy?”

Interview with "El País", 2009.

“The distribution of tasks among the various employees follows a simple rule, which is that the duty of the members of each category is to do as much work as they possibly can, so that only a small part of that work need be passed to the category above. This means that the clerks are obliged to work without cease from morning to night, whereas the senior clerks do so only now and then, the deputies very rarely, and the Registrar almost never.”

Conference http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aWFQRcdChk at Fórum Social Mundial, December 2007.

“Encyclopedias are like immutable cycloramas, prodigious projectors whose reels have got stuck and which show, with a kind of maniacal fixity, a landscape which, because it is condemned to be only and for all eternity what it was, will at the same time grow older more decrepit and more unnecessary. The encyclopedia purchased by Cipriano Algor's father is magnificent and as useless as a line of poetry we cannot quite remember.”

José Saramago книга All the Names

Источник: All the Names (1997), p. 2

“…I'm not able to fear death… We will all turn skeletons and everything shall end. The skeleton becomes, therefore, the most radical form of nudity.”

José Saramago книга The Cave

Источник: The Cave (2000), p. 57 (Vintage 2003)

“The question suddenly came into my head, 'And if we were all blind?' And then immediately, as if answering myself, 'But we are all blind.”

ÉPOCA Interview (in Portuguese) http://revistaepoca.globo.com/Epoca/0,6993,EPT1061569-1666-1,00.html, São Paulo, 2005.

“The day before is what we bring to the day we're actually living through, life is a matter of carrying along all those days-before just as someone might carry stones, and when we can no longer cope with the load, the work is done.”

José Saramago книга Blindness

Um dia, sentado à mesa, pensei: E se fôssemos todos cegos? Imediatamente me veio a resposta: Nós somos todos cegos.
On the idea for his next novel (Blindness), which came to him while sitting in a restaurant; New York Times interview with Alan Riding (1998), as quoted in Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies, 6th Edition (Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture, 2001), p. 131.

“A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book, when I finished: 'This is a book about Alentejo.”

José Saramago книга The Cave

Page 61, 2002 (Harvest Hardcover edition)
The Cave (2000)

“I believe that I've been asked all possible questions. I, myself, if I were a journalist, would not know what to ask me.”

Quoted in José Saramago: il bagaglio dello scrittore‎, page 41, by Giulia Lanciani, published by Bulzoni, 1996 ISBN 8871199332, 9788871199337 (256 pages).

“What the eye doesn’t see the heart doesn’t grieve over.”

Interview with "O Globo", July 2009.

“If I could repeat my childhood, I would repeat it exactly as it was, with the poverty, the cold, little food, with the flies and pigs, all that.”

José Saramago книга All the Names

Источник: All the Names (1997), p. 185

“The universe has no news of our existence.”

Interview with Edney Silvestre, 2007.

“In general, fakirs, like scribes and potters, are sitting down, when he’s standing up, a fakir is just like an other man, and sitting down, he’ll be smaller than the others”

O universo não tem notícia da nossa existência.
Interview with Adelino Gomes, Público, 13 November, 2005.

“If you can see, look. If you can look, observe.”

José Saramago книга The Cave

Источник: The Cave (2000), p. 60 (Vintage 2003)

“The young have the ability, but lack the wisdom, and the old have the wisdom, but lack the ability.”

José Saramago книга Blindness

Se podes olhar, vê. Se podes ver, repara.
Epigraph
Blindness (1995)

“My country is the Portuguese language.”

José Saramago книга The Cave

Nem a juventude sabe o que pode nem a velhice pode o que sabe.
Источник: The Cave (2000), p. 4 (Vintage 2003)

“Once the machine starts to fly, the heavens will be filled with music.”

Fernando Pessoa (as Bernardo Soares), in The Book of Disquiet (1982)
Misattributed

“One might ask why Senhor José needs a hundred-yard-long piece of string if the length of the Central Registry, despite successive extensions, is no more than eighty. That is the question of a person who imagines that one can do everything in life simply by following a straight line, that it is always possible to proceed from one place to another by the shortest route, perhaps some people in the outside world believe that they have done so, but here, where the living and the dead share the same space, sometimes, in order to find one of them, you have to make a lot of twists and turns, you have to skirt round mountains of bundles, columns of files, piles of cards, thickets of ancient remains, you have to walk down dark gulleys, between walls of grubby paper which, up above, actually touch, yards and yards of string will have to be unravelled, left behind, like a sinuous, subtle trail traced in the dust, there is no other way of knowing where you have to go next, there is no other way of finding your way back.”

José Saramago книга Baltasar and Blimunda

Voando a máquina, todo o céu será música.
Источник: Baltasar and Blimunda (1982), p. 165

“It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene.”

José Saramago книга All the Names

Источник: All the Names (1997), pp. 140–141

“But there is another way to speak of all this.”

Não é a pornografia que é obscena, é a fome que é obscena <br class="br"> Interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuohB_arwRE&lr=1 Programa Jô Soares, 1997.

“The bread was dry and hard, only a scraping of butter was left, he was out of milk, all he had was some rather mediocre coffee, as we know, a man who had never found a woman who would love him enough to agree to join him in this hovel, such a man, apart from rare exceptions which have no place in this story, will never be more than a poor devil, it's odd that we always say poor devil and never poor god, […]”

José Saramago книга Raised from the Ground

Источник: Raised from the Ground (1980), p. 4