# Quote — José Saramago, The Stone Raft

> So often we need a whole lifetime in order to change our life, we think a great deal, weigh things up and vacillate, then we go back to the beginning, we think and think, we displace ourselves on the tracks of time with a circular movement, like those clouds of dust, dead leaves, debris, that have no strength for anything more, better by far that we should live in a land of hurricanes.

- Author: [José Saramago](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago.md)
- Book: [The Stone Raft](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/the-stone-raft.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/the-stone-raft/so-often-we-need

## More from this book

> The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.

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