"The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level."

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I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

— Jose Saramago