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1922, November 1922, November 16th 1922, Europe, the EU, …Portugal,
the world,
the Eurozone,
Western Europe,
the Northern Hemisphere,
Southern Europe, Lisboa, Azinhaga, Africa-Eurasia,
Eurasia,
US postal Group 5, the UK European postal area, western european time region
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Blindness, Seeing, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, Baltasar and Blimunda, The Cave, …
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person; atheist; writer; playwright; activist; …
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"Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts."; "Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer."; "What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?"; "Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard."; "There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything."; …"There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is."; "The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO."; "The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins."; "The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan."; "The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers."; "The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others."; "Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought."; "Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is."; "It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power."; "It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people."; "Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are."; "In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die."; "I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see."; "I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined."; "I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it."; "I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work."; "I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends."; "I am not a prophet."; "I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been."; "I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist."; "I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?"; "Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt."; "Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?"; "Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity."; "Americans have discovered fear."
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