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Forgive me if I pain you, but all this is an utopia. Life is a battle between beasts, at any time and in any place. It's about "who can, save yourself” and that's it. Love is the preaching of the weak, hatred is the weapon of the strong. Love is only good for jokes or to give the strong ones an opportunity to enjoy the weaknesses of the weak.
— Dec 07, 2022 08:50AM
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Do not be scared. I just want to say that what each of us needs to be in life will not be achieved by the words he/she hears, by the advice he/she receives. The scar that transforms us into real people must remain on our skin. Then you have to do something...
— Dec 06, 2022 09:03AM
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He thought of reading a little before going to bed. It was early, barely half past ten, he still had plenty of time. But he didn't feel like reading. He didn't want to go out of doors either, even though the weather was stable, the sky without clouds, the temperature mild. He knew what he was going to see on the street: slow or hurried people, interested or indifferent. Dark houses, lighted houses.
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She hesitated. The word she wanted to say was on her lips, but it was as if she had profaned it by saying it. Some words withdraw themselves, shun away-- because they mean too much for our word-weary hearing...
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Besides the fact that I had my heart asleep, my body always remained cold, cold as marble... (Eca de Queiroz)
— Dec 03, 2022 07:52AM
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Dec 07, 2022 09:38AM
Cool quote! I don’t remember Saramago being so anti-love. >)
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Mark wrote: "Cool quote! I don’t remember Saramago being so anti-love. >)"Thank you! I don't think I have ever felt Saramago as anti-love. On the contrary I well remember his main principle in life, often spoken and often written, saying that: 'no one has an obligation to love anyone else, but we are all under an obligation to respect each other.' And one of the last sentences in this novel is saying, 'Everything that is not built on love will give birth to hatred', a nice warning to be for love, I guess :)
P.E. wrote: "Lovely..."O, where is it lovely? :)
P.E. wrote: "I was being ironic, is all 🤠"Ah! the mystery, and hope too, of your only word lovely originally caused my heart some violent palpitations, wondering how you grasped that soft impression ;) But now I dropped like lead :D
