A Quote by Jose Saramago

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.

Jose Saramago

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Jose Saramago
Portuguese - Novelist
November 16, 1922 - June 18, 2010

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In France, I discovered that I love writing in the city. There's such an intensity to being in the city that matches the intensity of what you're experiencing in your head.

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Kofi Annan

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...crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.

Walter Scott

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Lillian Bassman

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility

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Peter Rollins

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

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Rather than working to the exclusion of everything else in order to flood our bank accounts in the hope that we can eventually buy back what we have missed along the way, we need to live life fully now with a sense of its fragility.

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