[b]José Saramago
…we would understand much more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting time on identities and coherences, seeing as these have a duty to provide their own explanations.[/b]
I know: Where to begin.
The day before is what we bring to the day we’re actually living through, life is a matter of carrying along all those days-before just as someone might carry stones, and when we can no longer cope with the load, the work is done, the last day is the only one that is not the day before another day.
Unless of course you go to Heaven. Whatever that means.
…doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time…
More than a privilege it is [for some of us] practically mandatory.
…anyone who has been forced to rise early out of necessity finds it intolerable that others should go on sleeping soundly.
Few things are truer.
…our God, the creator of heaven and earth, is completely mad…
On the other hand, does He know that?
Not only does the universe have its own laws, all of them indifferent to the contradictory dreams and desires of humanity, and in the formulation of which we contribute not one iota, apart, that is, from the words by which we clumsily name them, but everything seems to indicate that it uses these laws for aims and objectives that transcend and always will transcend our understanding.
Let’s file this one under, “what else is new?”