“At this time of life even a day makes a difference, the only saving grace is that sometimes things improve.”

—  José Saramago, book The Cave

Source: The Cave (2000), p. 43 (Vintage 2003)

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

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