Saramago

"The imagination is the only freedom that cannot be taken away."

"All revolutions begin in the mind before they happen in the streets."

"The writer's duty is to bear witness to truth, no matter the cost."

"We are all capable of both great kindness and terrible cruelty."

"Time does not heal all wounds; it merely teaches us to live with them."

"The mask we wear in public is often more real than our true face."

"Justice without mercy is merely another form of violence."

"We are the sum of our contradictions."

"The most dangerous ignorance is the ignorance of our own ignorance."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the choice to act despite it."

"We build walls to protect ourselves, but they often become our prisons."

"The world changes when we change the way we see it."

"Beauty exists in the cracks and imperfections of life."

"We are all servants of time, though we pretend to be its masters."

"The heart knows truths that reason can never comprehend."

"Every story contains within it the entire history of humanity."

"We seek happiness in the wrong places, within instead of without."

"Patience is not passivity; it is a form of active resistance."

"The pen can change the world more than the sword ever could."

"We are strangers even to those we love the most."

"Art is the language spoken by those who have nothing else to say."

"The past is always present, whether we acknowledge it or not."

"We become wise not through accumulating knowledge, but through questioning it."

"Dreams are the only democracy that does not lie."

"The search for meaning is the only meaningful pursuit."

"We live in the space between what we desire and what we accept."

"Kindness is a radical act in an unkind world."

"Every person carries within them an entire universe."

"The future is written by those brave enough to challenge the past."

"Words can build bridges or burn them down."