I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. The novel receives streams of science, philosophy, poetry and contains all of these; it's not simply telling a story.

Jose Saramago
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  2. Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space. - Orhan Pamuk

  3. That’s what it feels like when you touch me. Like millions of tiny universes being born and then dying in the space between your finger and my skin. Sometimes I forget. - Iain Thomas

  4. You see, " she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across space-- I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him. - L.m. Montgomery

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More Quotes By Jose Saramago
  1. The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

  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.

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

  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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