Igor

“Só quando não se faz nada é que nada pode dar errado.”
― Hendrik Groen, Pogingen iets van het leven te maken: Het geheime dagboek van Hendrik Groen, 83¼ jaar

“The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets. I mean everything that I have said. I have the greatest contempt for optimism. And as for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested. If you want to mar a nature, you have merely to reform it.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Enquanto houver planos, há vida.”
― Hendrik Groen, Pogingen iets van het leven te maken: Het geheime dagboek van Hendrik Groen, 83¼ jaar

“My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect—simply a confession of failure. Faithfulness! I must analyse it some day. The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. But I don’t want to interrupt you. Go on with your story.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray