“Where do begin, he asked, Where you always have to begin, at the beginning”

—  José Saramago , book The Cave

Source: The Cave (2000), p. 53 (Vintage 2003)

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Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in … 1922–2010

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