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  • #1
    Júlio Dinis
    “O perfume da saudade é como o de certas flores, que só se percebe quando de longe o recebemos. Se, iludidos, as tentamos aspirar de perto, dissipa-se.”
    ― Júlio Dinis, A Morgadinha dos Canaviais

  • #2
    Lydia Maria Child
    “Over the river and through the wood
    To grandfather's house we go”
    ― Lydia Maria Francis Child

  • #3
    Afonso Cruz
    “A vida das pessoas acaba assim e Matilde nem sequer tem consciência de que morreu uma das suas mortes. De cada vez que deixamos de ser percebidos, morremos. Quando somos enterrados deixamos de ser percebidos por toda a gente, mas quando os outros já não olham para nós, ficaram condenados para um número limitado de pessoas, a uma morte em tudo idêntica à outra. A nossa morte não acontece quando somos enterrados, acontece continuamente: os dentes caem, os joelhos solidificam, a pele engelha-se, os amigos partem. Tudo isso é a morte. O momento final é apenas isso, um momento.”
    ― Afonso Cruz, Jesus Cristo Bebia Cerveja

  • #4
    Caio Fernando Abreu
    “Quis contar, não valia a pena. Ninguém entenderia.”
    ― Caio Fernando Abreu

  • #5
    Afonso Cruz
    “Rosa nunca se sente única. Isso nunca lhe acontece na vida. Todos os seus momentos são minimizados com um "isso também já me aconteceu". A vida de Rosa é partilhada por todos e não tem nada de único. Todos os seres humanos são únicos, menos Rosa. Ela pertence a todos, como o pão da missa que se divide pela humanidade.”
    ― Afonso Cruz, Jesus Cristo Bebia Cerveja

  • #6
    Amy Tan
    “Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.”
    ― Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter

  • #7
    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    ― Anaïs Nin

  • #8
    Anaïs Nin
    “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
    ― Anais Nin

  • #9
    Anaïs Nin
    “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
    ― Anais Nin

  • #10
    Anaïs Nin
    “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
    ― Anais Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

  • #11
    Tom Bodett
    “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
    ― Tom Bodett

  • #12
    George Moore
    “We humans are more complicated than animals, and we love through the imagination.”
    ― George Moore

  • #13
    Irwin Shaw
    “There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
    ― Irwin Shaw

  • #14
    Ralph Ellison
    “What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
    ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

  • #15
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch

  • #16
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey

  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde

  • #18
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein

  • #19
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss

  • #20
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West

  • #21
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa

  • #22
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #23
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi

  • #24
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost

  • #25
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus

  • #27
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain

  • #28
    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard

  • #29
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #30
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde

  • #31
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi



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