“Do not discuss God and his reason, does not discuss the motherland and the nation.”

Quoted in From myth to romance: a reading of the Gospel according Saramago - Page 76, of Conception Flores - Published by Publisher of UFRN, 2000 - 239 pages

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Prime Minister of Portugal 1889–1970

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