86 quotes found
“Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered.”
“Reading is probably another way of being in a place.”
“doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time,”
“One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger.”
“Everyone wants to save Man, but no one wants to know about men.”
“If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?”
“Not only does the universe have its own laws, all of them indifferent to the contradictory dreams and desires of humanity, and in the formulation of which we contribute not one iota, apart, that is...”
“...we confidently say that it's not worth trying to reach any conclusions merely because we decide to stop halfway along the path that would lead us straight to them.”
“Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.”
“how often fears come to sour our life and prove, in the end, to have no foundation, no reason to exist”
“...sometimes I do actually forget that the person to whom I owe that love is a real person, complete in himself, not someone who should make do with some rather diffuse emotion which gradually resi...”
“Men are all the same, they think that because they came out of the belly of a woman they know all there is to know about women.”
“Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it.”
“The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith.”
“... we are only ever pretending to ourselves, never to other people ...”
“There are people like Senhor Jos everywhere, who fill their time, or what they believe to be their spare time, by collecting stamps, coins, medals, vases, postcards, matchboxes, books, clocks, spor...”
“However hard he tried, he could never manage to make himself visible to human eyes and not because he can't, since for him nothing is impossible, it's simply that he wouldn't know what face to wear...”
“a man was on his way to the gallows when he met another, who asked him: where are you going, my friend? and the condemned man replied: i'm not going anywhere. they're taking me by force.”
“En su habitacin del hotel la muerte, desnuda, est delante del espejo. No sabe quin es.”
“Even death, faced with the option of death or life, she would choose life.”
“Authoritarian, paralyzing, circular, occasionally elliptical stock phrases, also jocularly referred to as nuggets of wisdom, are a malignant plague, one of the very worst ever to ravage the earth.”
“It will no longer be necessary to leave one's own home in order to find work in the surrounding districts, which means spending week after week away from home, for no matter how restless a fellow m...”
“Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.”
“blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.”
“... that destiny has to make many turnings before arriving anywhere, destiny alone knows what it has cost ...”
“Assim , mas a vantagem da igreja que, embora s vezes o no parea, ao gerir o que est no alto, governa o que est em baixo.”
