"Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all."

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Source : Jose Saramago's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 7, 1998.

Jose Saramago

#Forgive Me Quotes #Forgiving Quotes #Littles Quotes

“I am a businessman. I am anything I need to be at any time.”
“Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.”
“While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.”
“How far can you go in life if you don't love yourself?”
“His presidency ended more than a decade ago, but politicians, Democrat and Republican, still talk about Ronald Reagan. Al Gore has an ad noting that in Congress he opposed the Reagan budget cuts. He says that because Bill Bradley was one of 36 Democratic Senators who voted for the cuts. Gore doesnâ€™t point out that Bradley also voted against the popular Reagan tax cuts and that it was the tax cuts that piled up those enormous deficits, a snowballing national debt.”
“The past is more than a memory.”

Source : "What it Means to be a Human Being". John Trudell's speech in San Francisco, California, www.radio4all.net. March 2001.
“Trust is for lovers. In politics there are only converging interests.”
“It had been a humdrum couple of days, reaffirming his belief in reincarnation: everything was so boring that this could not be the first time he'd experienced it.”

Source : "Zone One". Book by Colson Whitehead, October 6, 2011.

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