# Quote — José Saramago, All The Names

> [...], old photographs are very deceiving, they give us the illusion that we are alive in them, and it's not true, the person we are looking at no longer exists, and if that person could see us, he or she would not recognise him or herself in us, Who's that looking at me so sadly, he or she would say.

- Author: [José Saramago](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago.md)
- Book: [All The Names](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/all-the-names.md)
- Page: 153
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Saramago#All_the_Names_(1997)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/all-the-names/old-photographs-are

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> What the eye doesn’t see the heart doesn’t grieve over.

p. 185 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/all-the-names/what-the-eye.md)

> No life is without its lies.

p. 172 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/all-the-names/no-life-is-without.md)