Author: José Saramago

Cites

• NULL (6)
  • IN: Seeing (2004) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Let's howl, said the dog
    FROM: The Book of Voices, (2004), Book, NULL
  • IN: The History of the Siege of Lisbon (1989) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Until you attain the truth, you will not be able to amend it. But if you do not amend it, you will not attain it. Meanwhile, do not resign yourself.
    FROM: The Book of Exhortations, (1989), Book, NULL
  • IN: The Double (2002) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered.
    FROM: The Book of Contraries, (None), Book, NULL
  • IN: Blindness (1995) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: If you can see, look. If you can look, observe.
    FROM: The Book of Exhortations, (None), Book, NULL
  • IN: All the Names (1997) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have.
    FROM: The Book of Certainties, (1997), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: The Elephant's Journey (2010) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: In the end, we always arrive at the place where we are expected.
    FROM: Book of Itineraries, (2010), Fictional, NULL
• Bible (3)
  • IN: The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (1991) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Quod scripsi, scripsi. What I have written, I have written.
    FROM: John 19:22, (100), Bible, Italy
  • IN: Cain (2012) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
    FROM: Hebrews 11:4 Book of Nonsense, (100), Bible, NULL
• Laurence Sterne (1)
  • IN: The Double (2002) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: I believe in my conscience I intercept many a thought which heaven intended for another man.
    FROM: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, (1759), Book, England / Ireland
• Plato (2)
  • IN: The Cave (2000) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: What a strange scene you describe and what strange prisoners, They are just like us.
    FROM: The Republic, Book VII, (-375), Book, Greece
• Alejo Carpentier (1)
  • IN: The Stone Raft (1986) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Every future is fabulous.
    FROM: Concierto Barroco, (1974), Novel, Cuba / France / Switzerland
• Padre Manuel Velho (1)
  • IN: Baltasar and Blimunda (1982) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: A man was on his way to the gallows when he met another, who asked him: Where are you going, my friend? And the condemned man replied: I'm not going anywhere. They're taking me by force.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Almeida Garrett (1)
  • IN: Raised From the Ground (1980) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I ask the political economists and the moralists if they have ever calculated the number of individuals who must be condemned to misery, overwork, demoralization, degradation, rank ignorance, overwhelming misfortune and utter penury in order to produce one rich man.
    FROM: Viagens na Minha Terra, (1846), Book, Portugal
• Raul Brandao (1)
  • IN: Skylight (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In all souls, as in all houses, beyond the facade lies a hidden interior.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Portugal