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- You must have some skill, a craft, a profession, as they call it nowadays
- I have, did have, will have if necessary, but I want to find the unknown island. I want to find out who I am when I'm there on that island
- Don't you know?
- If you don't step outside yourself, you'll never discover who you are.
- The king's philosopher, when he had nothing to do, would come and sit beside me and watch me darning the pages' socks, and sometimes he would start philosophizing, he used to say that each man is an island, but since that had nothing to do with me, being a woman, I paid no attention to him. What do you think?
- That you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves.

José Saramago

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