Even death, faced with the option of death or life, she would choose life.

Falar do passado é o mais fácil que há, está tudo escrito, é só repetir, papaguear, conferir pelos livros o que os alunos [escrevem] nos livros ou nas chamadas orais, ao passo que falar de...

As palavras proferidas pelo coração não tem língua que as articule, retém-nas um nó na garganta e só nos olhos é que se podem ler

O mundo é tão bonito e eu tenho tanta pena de morrer.

Las propias palabras, que no son cosas, que sólo las designan lo mejor que pueden, y designándolas las modelan, incluso las que sirvieron de manera ejemplar, suponiendo que tal pudiera suceder en alguna ocasión, son...

Intotdeauna ajungem acolo unde suntem asteptati.

…queira Deus que nunca se extinga a caridade para que não venha a acabar-se a pobreza…

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.

No olvides que lo que llamamos hoy realidad fue imaginación.

…sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things, the distances between them, it separates people and they’re lying next to each other, brings them together and they can barely see one another…

Olharei a tua sombra se não quiseres que te olhe a ti, disse-lhe, e ele respondeu, Quero estar onde minha sombra estiver, se lá é que estiverem os teus olhos. Amavam-se e diziam palavras como...

God will save you.Surely you’re forgetting that God saves souls rather than bodies.

… la muerte, por sí misma, sola, sin ninguna ayuda exterior, siempre ha matado mucho menos que el hombre.

Porque só o silêncio é certo.

Tudo no mundo está dando respostas, o que demora é o tempo das perguntas.

Reading is probably another way of being in a place.

A person is not like a thing that you put down in one place and leave, a person moves, thinks, asks, questions, doubts, investigates, probes, and while it is true that, out of a long...

Creio que todo o homem ama sempre a mulher a quem está a beijar, ainda que seja por desespero,…

… we are only ever pretending to ourselves, never to other people …

These earthenware bowls are fragile and easily broken, they are only made of a little clay on which fortune has precariously bestowed a shape, and the same could be said of mankind.

He imagined that he was looking for her and couldn’t find her anywhere, that the two of them were lost on a vast ship, sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things,...

Proclamava-se ali o fim do mundo, a salvação penitencial, a visão do sétimo dia, o advento do anjo, a colisão cósmica, a extinção do sol, o espírito da tribo, a seiva da mandrágora, o unguento...

Yes, My Son, man is a piece of wood, that can be used for everything, from the moment he’s born until the moment he dies, he’s always ready to obey, send him there and he...

A man must earn his daily bread by some means some-where, and if his bread fails to nourish his soul, at least his body will be nourished while his soul suffers.

Nada é para sempre, dizemos, mas há momentos que parecem ficar suspensos, pairando sobre o fluir inexorável do tempo.

O pão de agora não mata a fome de ontem, muito menos a de amanhã.

Terás então de ler doutra maneira, Como, Não serve a mesma para todos, cada um inventa a sua, a que lhe for própria, há quem leve a vida inteira a ler sem nunca ter conseguido...

En ningún momento de la historia, en ningún lugar del planeta, las religiones han servido para que los seres humanos se acerquen unos a los otros. Por el contrario, sólo han servido para separar, para...

Sólo un sentido común con imaginación de poeta podría haber sido el inventor de la rueda.

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.

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

We’ve all had our moments of weakness, and if we manage to get through today without any, we’ll be sure to have some tomorrow.

We are so afraid of the idea of having to die… that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn…

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.

Indeed, very few people are aware that in each of our fingers, located somewhere between the first phalange, the mesophalange, and the metaphalange, there is a tiny brain. The fact is that the other organ...

(…) é assim, salvo seja, como uma invalidez da linguagem, não é querer dizer amor e não chegar a língua, é ter língua e não chegar ao amor.

Saberíamos muito mais das complexidades da vida se nos aplicássemos a estudar com afinco as suas contradições em vez de perdemos tanto tempo com as identidades e as coerências, que essas têm obrigação de explicar-se...

A full moon, although less splendid than that earlier on,lit everything around. Before I reached the point where I would have to leave the road and set off across country, the narrow path I was...

old photographs are very deceiving, they give us the illusion that we are alive in them, and it’s not true, the person we are looking at no longer exists, and if that person could see...

Al contrario de lo que piensa el sentido común, las cosas de la voluntad nunca son simples, lo que es simple es la indecisión, la incertidumbre, la irresolución…

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.

Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.

Virtue, should there be anyone who still ignores the fact, always finds pitfalls on the extremely difficult path of perfection, but sin and vice are so favoured by fortune…

[…] with the protecting sky in all its splendour and the golden sun blazing forth against a backdrop of crystalline blue, to use the inspired words of a television reporter[…].

À igreja nunca se lhe pediu que explicasse fosse o que fosse, a nossa outra especialidade, além da balística, tem sido neutralizar, pela fé, o espírito curioso.

You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it’s time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds...

The threat of rain appears to have nothing to do with Joao Elvas’s desire to be alone, and one must not forget that, strange as it may seem, some men can spend their entire life...

O fim de uma viagem é apenas o começo de outra

Ainda que esse instante de gozo supremo pudesse durar-vos a vida inteira, nunca os dois que sois poderíeis chegar a ser um só.

The moral conscience that so many thoughtless people have offended against and many more have rejected, is something that exists and has always existed. It was not an invention of the philosophers of the Quartenary,...