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“I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Entrei numa livraria. Pus-me a contar os livros que há para ler e os anos que terei de vida. Não chegam! Não duro nem para metade da livraria! Deve haver certamente outras maneiras de uma pessoa se salvar, senão… estou perdido.”
― Almada Negreiros, A Invenção do Dia Claro

“Quando eu nasci, as frases que hão-de salvar a humanidade já estavam todas escritas, só faltava uma coisa - salvar a humanidade.”
― José de Almada Negreiros, A Invenção do Dia Claro

“You're lucky. I'm always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

“I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It
always made me want to do just the opposite.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

“Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.”
― Eugene Delacroix

“Of which beauty will you speak? There are many: there are a thousand: there is one for every look, for every spirit, adapted to each taste, to each particular constitution.”
― Eugène Delacroix

“Eu não me envergonho de corrigir os meus erros e mudar de opinião, porque não me envergonho de raciocinar e aprender.”
― Alexandre Herculano

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump abroad or stand on the platform and watch as it passes.”
― Yasmina Khadra, Ce que le jour doit à la nuit

“What to keep of all these reels of film, what to throw away? If we could only take 1 memory on our journey, what would we choose? At the expense of what or whom? And most importantly, how to choose among all these shadows, all these spectres, all these titans? Who are we, when all is said and done? Are we the people we once were or the people we wish we had been? Are we the pain we caused others or the pain we suffered at the hands of others? The encounters we missed or those fortuitous meetings that changed the course of our destiny? Our time behind the scenes that saved us form our vanity or the moment in the limelight that warmed us? We are all of these things, we are the whole life that we have lived, its highs and lows, its fortunes and its hardships, we are the sum of the ghosts that haunt us... we are a host of characters in one, so convincing in every role we played that it is impossible for us to tell who we really were, who we have become, who we will be.”
― Yasmina Khadra, What the Day Owes the Night

“This land does not belong to you. It belongs to that ancient shepherd whose ghost is standing next to you, though you refuse to see it. Since you do not know how to share, take your vineyards and your bridges, your paved roads and your railway tracks, your cities and your gardens and give back what remains to its rightful owners".”
― Yasmina Khadra, Ce que le jour doit à la nuit

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.”
― Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address

“We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help to free the other half."
~ Emmeline Pankhurst”
― Emmeline Pankhurst, The Suffragette: The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement

“I offer you peace.
I offer you love.
I offer you friendship.
I see your beauty.
I hear your need.
I feel your feelings.
My wisdom flows from the highest Source.
I salute that Source in you.
Let us work together. For unity and peace.”
― Mohandas Gandhi

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

“O sofrimento é como a liberdade: só aos corações de grande fortaleza pode aproveitar, aos outros humilha-os e corrompe-os, e mais nada.”
― Agustina Bessa-Luís, Contemplação Carinhosa da Angústia

“As coisas feias são tão próprias do mundo como as bonitas. Tu és muito nova, menina, e, no colégio, não fazem outra coisa senão tapar-te os olhos- o que é um engano, menina. Conhecer o mal é já uma defesa. Onde não há inocência, pode haver pecado; mas onde não há sabedoria, há sempre desgraça.”
― Agustina Bessa-Luís, A Sibila

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune