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“Quantas vezes, para mudar a vida, precisamos da vida inteira, pensamos tanto, tomamos balanço e hesitamos, depois voltamos ao princípio, tornamos a pensar e a pensar, deslocamo-nos nas calhas do tempo com um movimento circular, como os espojinhos que atravessam o campo levantando poeira, folhas secas, insignificâncias, que para mais não lhes chegam as forças, bem melhor seria vivermos em terra de tufões.”
― José Saramago, The Stone Raft

“As palavras são assim, disfarçam muito, vão-se juntando umas com as outras, parece que não sabem aonde querem ir, e de repente, por causa de duas ou três, ou quatro que de repente saem, simples em si mesmas, um pronome pessoal, um advérbio, um verbo, um adjectivo, e aí temos a comoção a subir irresistível à superfície da pele e dos olhos, às vezes são os nervos que não podem aguentar mais, suportaram muito, suportaram tudo, era como se levassem uma armadura, diz-se A mulher do médico tem nervos de aço, e afinal a mulher do médico está desfeita em lágrimas por obra de um pronome pessoal, de um advérbio, de um verbo, de um adjectivo, meras categorias gramaticais, meros designativos, como o são igualmente as duas mulheres mais, as outras, pronomes indefinidos, também eles chorosos, que se abraçam à da oração completa, três graças nuas sob a chuva que cai.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Viajámos até aqui nos vagões selados; vimos partir em direcção ao nada as nossas mulheres e as nossas crianças; reduzidos a escravos, marchamos mil vezes para trás e para diante, numa fadiga muda, já apagados nas almas antes da morte anónima. Não temos regresso. Ninguém deve sair daqui, pois poderia levar para o mundo, juntamente com a marca gravada na carne, a terrível notícia do que, em Auschwitz, o homem teve coragem de fazer ao homem.”
― Primo Levi, If This Is a Man • The Truce

“Have you heard of the illness hysteria siberiana? Try to imagine this: You're a farmer, living all alone on the Siberian tundra. Day after day you plow your fields. As far as the eye can see, nothing. To the north, the horizon, to the east, the horizon, to the south, to the west, more of the same. Every morning, when the sun rises in the east, you go out to work in your fields. When it's directly overhead, you take a break for lunch. When it sinks in the west, you go home to sleep. And then one day, something inside you dies. Day after day you watch the sun rise in the east, pass across the sky, then sink in the west, and something breaks inside you and dies. You toss your plow aside and, your head completely empty of thought, begin walking toward the west. Heading toward a land that lies west of the sun. Like someone, possessed, you walk on, day after day, not eating or drinking, until you collapse on the ground and die. That's hysteria siberiana.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Nascemos, e nesse momento é como se tivéssemos firmado um pacto para toda a vida, mas o dia pode chegar em que nos perguntemos Quem assinou isto por mim.”
― José Saramago, Seeing

“It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.”
― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

“You don't want to have any pity on these here tramps – scum, they are. You don't want to judge them by the same standards as men like you and me. They're scum, just scum.' It was interesting to see the subtle way in which he disassociated himself from 'these here tramps'. He had been on the road six months, but in the sight of God, he seemed to imply, he was not a tramp. I imagine there are quite a lot of tramps who thank God they are not tramps. They are like the trippers who say such cutting things about trippers.”
― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

“He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy. It was time when they both loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Life would still present them with other moral trials, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the other shore.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera