Quotes by José Luís Peixoto, The Implacable Order of Things

“I think: perhaps the sky is a huge sea of fresh water and we, instead of walking under it, walk on top of it; perhaps we see everything upside down and the earth is a kind of sky, so that when we d...”

“Suffering is tossed by handfuls over the multitudes, with most of it falling on some people and little or none of it on others.”