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Death with Interruptions
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"Death with Interruptions" Quotes

In "Death with Interruptions," death suddenly stops occurring in an unnamed country, leading to chaos and existential reflection as society grapples with the consequences of immortality and the eventual return of death in an unexpected form.

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It is not only the land of the living that is subject to interruption. Death too may come to a standstill.

José Saramago

deathlife

The one thing that everyone must do is die. No one has yet found a way of avoiding this necessity, and there is no way out of it.

José Saramago

deathinevitability

What is a year? A fraction of time equal to one revolution of the earth around the sun, and how immeasurable is that.

José Saramago

time

The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.

José Saramago

mistake

There are only three things that matter in life, birth, love and death.

José Saramago

lifelovedeath

No one can stop a death by mere decree of law.

José Saramago

deathlaw

We are all hostages of time.

José Saramago

time

In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel.

José Saramago

loveresponsibility

The fact that we are not living in the midst of a great war, that the sun is shining, that the earth continues to turn, must be sufficient, it is not.

José Saramago

lifewargratitude

The world has been rearranged. What was once on top is now below.

José Saramago

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