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Jose Saramago Quotes about Lying

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That it's possible not to see a lie even when it's in front of us.

That it's possible not to see a lie even when it's in front of us.

Jose Saramago
Lying, Fronts
"All the Names" by Jose Saramago, tr. Margaret Jull Costam London: The Harvill Press, (p. 210), 1999.

Sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things, the distances between them, it separates people and they're lying next to each other, brings them together and they can barely see one another.

Jose Saramago
Distance, Lying, Sleep

Unlike Joseph her husband, Mary is neither upright nor pious, but she is not blame for this, the blame lies with the language she speaks if not with the men who invented it, because that language has no feminine form for the words upright and pious.

Jose Saramago
Husband, Lying, Men

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