Tous les noms ('), 1997
José Saramago citations célèbres
Manuel de Peinture et de Calligraphie ('), 1983
Tous les noms (Todos os nomes), 1997
[…] Espérons qu’au moins les pauvres diables ne seront pas fusillés. Car alors nous serions fondés à dire qu’ils étaient allés chercher de la laine et étaient revenus prêts à être tondus.
Les intermittences de la mort (As Intermitcias da Morte), 2005
L’Évangile selon Jésus-Christ (O Evangelho segundo Jesus Cristo), 1991
Tous les noms (Todos os nomes), 1997
José Saramago livre Tous les noms
Tous les noms (Todos os nomes), 1997
José Saramago: Citations en anglais
“Worse still if that sameness should ever become total.”
José Saramago livre The Double
The Double (2002)
José Saramago livre 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.
Source: The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (1991), p. 235
José Saramago livre The Elephant's Journey
Source: 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.”
José Saramago livre The Cave
Source: The Cave (2000), p. 89 (Vintage 2003)
“To me, the Bible is a book. Important, no doubt, but a book.”
Interview to the newspaper "O Globo", 2009.
“Age carries with it a double load of guilt”
José Saramago livre The Cave
Source: The Cave (2000), p. 69 (Vintage 2003)
José Saramago livre The Cave
Source: The Cave (2000), p. 64 (Vintage 2003)
José Saramago livre The Cave
Source: The Cave (2000), p. 92 (Vintage 2003)
Conference http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aWFQRcdChk at Fórum Social Mundial, December 2007.
José Saramago livre Tous les noms
Source: All the Names (1997), p. 2
José Saramago livre The Cave
Source: The Cave (2000), p. 57 (Vintage 2003)
ÉPOCA Interview (in Portuguese) http://revistaepoca.globo.com/Epoca/0,6993,EPT1061569-1666-1,00.html, São Paulo, 2005.
José Saramago livre 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.
José Saramago livre The Cave
Page 61, 2002 (Harvest Hardcover edition)
The Cave (2000)
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.”
José Saramago livre Tous les noms
Source: All the Names (1997), p. 185
“The universe has no news of our existence.”
O universo não tem notícia da nossa existência.
Interview with Adelino Gomes, Público, 13 November, 2005.
José Saramago livre The Cave
Source: The Cave (2000), p. 60 (Vintage 2003)
“If you can see, look. If you can look, observe.”
José Saramago livre Blindness
Se podes olhar, vê. Se podes ver, repara.
Epigraph
Blindness (1995)
José Saramago livre The Cave
Nem a juventude sabe o que pode nem a velhice pode o que sabe.
Source: The Cave (2000), p. 4 (Vintage 2003)
“My country is the Portuguese language.”
Fernando Pessoa (as Bernardo Soares), in The Book of Disquiet (1982)
Misattributed
“Once the machine starts to fly, the heavens will be filled with music.”
José Saramago livre Baltasar and Blimunda
Voando a máquina, todo o céu será música.
Source: Baltasar and Blimunda (1982), p. 165
José Saramago livre Tous les noms
Source: All the Names (1997), pp. 140–141
“It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene.”
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.
“But there is another way to speak of all this.”
José Saramago livre Raised from the Ground
Source: Raised from the Ground (1980), p. 4
José Saramago livre Tous les noms
Source: All the Names (1997), p. 100
