Jose Saramago Quote
Now don't run away. I'm not. I learned to see beyond the soles of these shoes. I learned that behind this wretched life we lead there is a great ideal, a great hope. I learned that each individual life should be guided by that hope and by that ideal. And people who don't feel that must have died before they were born. He smiled and added, Those aren't my words. It's something I heard someone else say years ago. In your view ,then, I belong to the group who died before they were born? No, you belong to another group, the ones who haven't yet been born. Aren't you forgetting about all my experience of life? Not at all, but experience is only worth anything when it's useful to other people, and you're not useful to anyone.
Now don't run away. I'm not. I learned to see beyond the soles of these shoes. I learned that behind this wretched life we lead there is a great ideal, a great hope. I learned that each individual life should be guided by that hope and by that ideal. And people who don't feel that must have died before they were born. He smiled and added, Those aren't my words. It's something I heard someone else say years ago. In your view ,then, I belong to the group who died before they were born? No, you belong to another group, the ones who haven't yet been born. Aren't you forgetting about all my experience of life? Not at all, but experience is only worth anything when it's useful to other people, and you're not useful to anyone.
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About Jose Saramago
More than two million copies of Saramago's books have been sold in Portugal alone and his work has been translated into 25 languages. A proponent of libertarian communism, Saramago criticized institutions such as the Catholic Church, the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. An atheist, he defended love as an instrument to improve the human condition. In 1992, the Government of Portugal under Prime Minister Aníbal Cavaco Silva ordered the removal of one of his works, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, from the Aristeion Prize's shortlist, claiming the work was religiously offensive. Disheartened by this political censorship of his work, Saramago went into exile on the Spanish island of Lanzarote, where he lived alongside his Spanish wife Pilar del Río until his death in 2010.
Saramago was a founding member of the National Front for the Defense of Culture in Lisbon in 1992.