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“Ser poeta não é uma ambição minha. É a minha maneira de estar sózinho.”
― Fernando Pessoa, Poesias

“El amor es un castigo. Somos castigados por no haber podido quedarnos solos. ”
― Marguerite Yourcenar

“Una mirada desde la alcantarilla
puede ser una visión del mundo,
la rebelión consiste en mirar una rosa
hasta pulverizarse los ojos.”
― Alejandra Pizarnik, Árbol de Diana

“I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.”
― Wislawa Szymborska, Nonrequired Reading

“Que otros se jacten de las páginas que han escrito; a mí me enorgullecen las que he leído.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Llorar de amor,
de hastío,
de alegría.
Llorar de frac,
de flato, de flacura.
Llorar improvisando,
de memoria.
¡Llorar todo el insomnio y todo el día!”
― Oliverio Girondo

“No tenía miedo de viajar sola porque era una chica grande, con nada menos que veinte pesos en la cartera... ”
― Julio Cortázar, Bestiario

“...nos queríamos en una dialéctica de imán y limadura, de ataque y defensa, de pelota y pared.”
― Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch

“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?”
― Marguerite Yourcenar

“Let our scars fall in love.”
― Galway Kinnell

“nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands”
― e.e. cummings

“Não sou nada.
Nunca serei nada.
Não posso querer ser nada.
À parte isso, tenho em mim todos os sonhos do mundo.”
― Fernando Pessoa, Tabacaria e Outros Poemas

“Ese episodio de la imaginación al que llamamos realidad”
― Fernando Pessoa

“El amor también es una sombra
que busca entre las sombras
otro cuerpo silente.”
― Enric Sòria

“The master is not the one who teaches; it's the one who suddenly learns.”
― Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Grande Sertao: Veredas

“Everybody's serious but me.”
― Allen Ginsberg

“La lettura è solitudine. Si legge da soli anche quando si è in due.”
― Italo Calvino

“If you have no more happiness to give:
Give me your pain.”
― Lou Andreas-Salomé

“Para saber de amor, para aprenderle,
haber estado solo es necesario.
Y es necesario en cuatrocientas noches
- con cuatrocientos cuerpos diferentes -
haber hecho el amor.”
― Jaime Gil de Biedma

“I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives.”
― Antonio Tabucchi

“Le persone sono lontane quando ci stanno accanto,
figurarsi quando sono lontane davvero.”
― Antonio Tabucchi

“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."

(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)”
― Patti Smith

“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“If the moon smiled, she would resemble you.
You leave the same impression
Of something beautiful, but annihilating.”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition

“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“Don't touch me, I'm full of snakes.”
― Jack Kerouac