“Doesn't anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer?”
José Saramago (1922–2010) Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature
Interview with Edney Silvestre, 2007.
“Only what is fated to die is capable of living. Only what dies lives. Why do you think Christ was killed? They killed him to prove that he wasn’t a god. But in killing him, they immortalized the perishable and transformed man into a god.”
Empire of Dreams (prose poetry, 1988)
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