Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the proper legal time.

Jose Saramago
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  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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