“If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.”

—  José Saramago , book Blindness

Se não formos capazes de viver inteiramente como pessoas, ao menos façamos tudo para não viver inteiramente como animais.
Source: Blindness (1995), p. 116

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Se não formos capazes de viver inteiramente como pessoas, ao menos, façamos tudo para não viver inteiramente como animais.

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Variant: Se não formos capazes de viver inteiramente como pessoas, ao menos façamos tudo para não viver inteiramente como animais.

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