Death with Interruptions (2005) (edit title/settings)

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• The church has never been asked to explain anything, our specialty, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralization of the overly curious mind through faith,

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• Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

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• Anesthesia saved him from the supreme sacrilege of wanting to transfer the powers of death to a god more generally known as a giver of life.

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• One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.

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• Alas, when one advances blindly across the boggy ground of realpolitik, when pragmatism takes up the baton and conducts the orchestra, ignoring what is written in the score, you can be pretty sure that, as the imperative logic of dishonor will show, there are still, after all, a few more steps to descend.

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• Everything that can happen will happen, it's only a matter of time, and if we don't get to see it while we're around, it will be because we didn't live long enough.

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• what happens after death matters to us far less than is generally believed, religion, sir, is an earthly matter, and has nothing to do with heaven, That isn't what we're usually told, We had to say something to make the merchandise attractive, So does that mean you don't believe in eternal life, We pretend we do.

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• When I think about it, I have no idea who you are, but that's not important, what matters is that we care about each other.

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• Because philosophy needs death as much as religions do, if we philosophize it's in order to know that we will die, as monsieur de montaigne said, to philosophize is to learn how to die.

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• it seems you don't understand that words are the labels we stick on things, not the things themselves, you'll never know what the things are really like, nor even what their real names are, because the names you gave them are just that, the names you gave them,

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• Death: Death takes a vacation, what are the implications? -- this is the theme throughout the first half of this book.
• Politics: With death gone, how does the country deal with a growing elderly population who does not die? The politics in Death with Interruptions are at times hilarious.

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1. José Saramago (Author)

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• Dewey: 869.342

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( S ) › Saramago, Jose
• Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › Portuguese
• Books › Religion & Spirituality › Fiction › Visionary Fiction
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