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“I read; I travel; I become”
― Derek Walcott

“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
― Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America

“Courage, dear heart.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.”
― Aldo Leopold

“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”
― Sir Walter Scott

“Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.”
― John Grisham, The Rainmaker

“Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Where have you come from boy?'
He looked at her again.
'From hell, to take you away in the night and eat you.”
― Paul Hoffman, The Left Hand of God

“To be sociable is a risky thing—even fatal—because it means being in contact with people, most of whom are dull, perverse and ignorant and are really with you only because they cannot bear their own company. Most people bore themselves and greet you not as a true friend but as a distraction—like a dancing dog or some half-wit actor
with a fund of amusing stories.”
― Paul Hoffman, The Left Hand of God

“Há quem confunda a alegria com a felicidade. A alegria não se parece com a felicidade, a não ser na medida em que um mar agitado se parece com um mar plácido. A água é a mesma, apenas isso. A alegria resulta de um entorpecimento do espírito, a felicidade de uma iluminação momentânea. O álcool pode levar-nos à alegria - ou um cigarro de liamba, ou um novo amor - porque nos obscurece temporariamente a inteligência. A alegria pode, pois, ser burra. A felicidade é outra coisa. Não ri às gargalhadas. Não se anuncia com fogo de artifício. Não faz estremecer estádios. Raras são as vezes em que nos apercebemos da felicidade no instante em que somos felizes.”
― José Eduardo Agualusa, Barroco Tropical

“Quem viveu pregado a um só chão não sabe sonhar outros lugares.”
― Mia Couto, Jesusalém

“One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

“Deserve your dream.”
― octavio paz

“Lost, I am Lost! My fates have doomed my death.
The more I strive, I love; the more I love,
The less I hope. I see my ruin, certain.
What judgement or endeavors could apply
To my incurable and restless wounds
I throughly have examined, but in vain.
Oh, that it were not in religion sin
To make our love a god and worship it!
I have even wearied heaven with prayers, dried up
The spring of my continual tears, even starved
My veins with daily fasts; what wit or art
Could counsel, I have practiced. But, alas,
I find all these but dreams and old men's tales
To fright unsteady youth; I'm still the same.
Or I must speak or burst. Tis not, I know,
My lust, but tis my fate that leads me on.
Keep fear and low fainthearted shame with slaves!
I'll tell her that I love her, through my heart
Were rated at the price of that attempt.”
― John Ford, ' Tis Pity She's a Whore

“Revenge proves its own executioner.”
― John Ford, Broken Heart

“People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat--that's the only moral they know.”
― Dany Laferrière, I Am a Japanese Writer

“The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.”
― Stanley Fish

“O Homem é, por desgraça uma solidão: Nascemos sós, vivemos sós e morremos sós.”
― Miguel Torga

“Homens para quem o absoluto é o relativo clarificado, e que por isso entregam desta maneira a filha ao namorado que lha pede em casamento:

Pastora é,
Gado guardou;
Sebes saltou;
Se nalguma se picou,
Tal como está
Assim vo-la dou...”
― Miguel Torga, Diário - Volume VIII

“The universal is the local without walls”
― Miguel Torga

“Tenho a impressão de que certas pessoas, se soubessem exactamente o que são e o que valem na verdade, endoideciam. De que, se no intervalo da embófia e da importância pudessem descer ao fundo do poço e ver a pobreza franciscana que lá vai, pediam a Deus que as metesse pela terra dentro.”
― Miguel Torga

“May the sun come, it's a new day; In the pure land of fantasy; That our darkness enlightened”
― Miguel Torga

“...onde está ou tenha estado um homem é preciso que esteja ou tenha estado toda a humanidade.”
― Miguel Torga

“Recomeça…
Se puderes,
Sem angústia e sem pressa.
E os passos que deres,
Nesse caminho duro
Do futuro,
Dá-os em liberdade.
Enquanto não alcances
Não descanses.
De nenhum fruto queiras só metade.
E, nunca saciado,
Vai colhendo
Ilusões sucessivas no pomar
E vendo
Acordado,
O logro da aventura.
És homem, não te esqueças!
Só é tua a loucura
Onde, com lucidez, te reconheças.”
― Miguel Torga

“I did get lost but I wanted someone to find me.”
― Sarra Manning

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

“One of the secrets of a successful life is to know how to be a little profitably crazy.”
― Josephine Tey, To Love and Be Wise

“At that moment I knew what the plebs were, much more clearly than when, years earlier, she had asked me. The plebs were us. The plebs were that fight for food and wine, that quarrel over who should be served first and better, that dirty floor on which the waiters clattered back and forth, those increasingly vulgar toasts. The plebs were my mother, who had drunk wine and now was leaning against my father’s shoulder, while he, serious, laughed, his mouth gaping, at the sexual allusions of the metal dealer. They were all laughing, even Lila, with the expression of one who has a role and will play it to the utmost.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.”
― Mark Twain

“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?”
― Edgar Bergen