José Saramago: Frasi in inglese

José Saramago era scrittore, critico letterario e poeta portoghese. Frasi in inglese.
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“When the lord, also known as god, realised that adam and eve, although perfect in every outward aspect, could not utter a word or make even the most primitive of sounds, he must have felt annoyed with himself, for there was no one else in the garden of eden whom he could blame for this grave oversight…”

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José Saramago libro Cain

Origine: Cain (2009), p. 1

“As I could not and did not aspire to venture beyond my little plot of cultivated land, all I had left was the possibility of digging down, underneath, towards the roots. My own but also the world's, if I can be allowed such an immoderate ambition.”

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Nobel Lecture (1998)

“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.”

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Nobel Lecture (1998)

“… because contrary to what people say, two weaknesses don't make for a still greater weakness, but for renewed strength …”

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José Saramago libro La caverna

The Cave (2000)

“Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.”

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José Saramago libro L'anno della morte di Ricardo Reis

Origine: The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1993), p. 47

“Ah, who will write the history of what might have been?”

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Fernando Pessoa (as Álvaro de Campos), quoted by José Saramago in The Stone Raft (1986), p. 9
Misattributed

“A man must read widely, a little of everything or whatever he can, but given the shortness of life and the verbosity of the world, not too much should be demanded of him. Let him begin with those titles no one should omit, commonly referred to as books for learning, as if not all books were for learning, and this list will vary according to the fount of knowledge one drinks from and the authority that monitors its flow.”

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José Saramago libro L'anno della morte di Ricardo Reis

Origine: The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1993), p. 117

“That it’s possible not to see a lie even when it’s in front of us.”

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José Saramago libro All the Names

Origine: All the Names (1997), p. 210

“At this time of life even a day makes a difference, the only saving grace is that sometimes things improve.”

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José Saramago libro La caverna

Origine: The Cave (2000), p. 43 (Vintage 2003)

“Authoritarian, paralyzing, circular, occasionally elliptical, stock phrases, also jocularly referred to as nuggets of wisdom, are malignant plague, one of the very worst ever to ravage the earth. We say to the confused, Know thyself, as if knowing yourself was not the fifth and most difficult of human arithmetical operations, we say to the apathetic, Where there’s a will, there’s a way, as if the brute realities of the world did not amuse themselves each day by turning that phrase on its head, we say to the indecisive, Begin at the beginning, as if that beginning were the clearly visible point of a loosely wound thread and that all we had to do was to keep pulling until we reached the other end, and as if, between the former and the latter, we had held in our hands a smooth, continuous thread with no knots to untie, no snarled to untangle, a complete impossibility in the life of a skien, or indeed, if we may be permitted on more stock phrase, in the skien of life. … These are the delusions of the pure and unprepared, the beginning is never the clear, precise end of a thread, the beginning is a long, painfully slow process that requires time and patience in order to find out in which direction it is heading, a process that feels its way along the path ahead like a blind man the beginning is just the beginning, what came before is nigh on worthless.”

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José Saramago libro La caverna

Origine: The Cave (2000), p. 54 (Vintage 2003)

“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.”

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José Saramago libro 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.
Origine: The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (1991), p. 235

“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…”

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José Saramago libro The Elephant's Journey

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

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

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José Saramago libro La caverna

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

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

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Interview to the newspaper "O Globo", 2009.

“Age carries with it a double load of guilt”

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José Saramago libro La caverna

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

“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.”

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José Saramago libro La caverna

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

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

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José Saramago libro La caverna

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

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

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José Saramago libro The Double

The Double (2002)

“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.”

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Interview with "El País", 2009.