It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

Jose Saramago
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  2. Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

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  4. In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don't talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page,...

  5. 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.

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