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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.
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.
Approximate author period: c. 1966 AD · modern
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- Jose Saramago
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- Approximate author period: c. 1966 AD · modern
Approximate period for recorded attribution label Jose Saramago: recorded author lifetime 1922–2010. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37060 (checked 2026-10-08). The existing author record is jose-saramago; no author identity is bound and no quotation composition date or attribution is independently verified.
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