blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.

The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein.

Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered

Não tenhamos pressa, mas não percamos tempo.

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,...

Evidentemente, muitos destes cegos estao a ser pisados, empurrados, esmurrados, é o efeito do p nico, um efeito natural, pode-se dizer, a natureza animal é mesmo assim, também a vegetal se comportaria de igual maneira...

The instant is gone, time has carried us into the realm of memory, it was like this, no, it was not, and everything becomes what we choose to invent.

There are people like Senhor José everywhere, who fill their time, or what they believe to be their spare time, by collecting stamps, coins, medals, vases, postcards, matchboxes, books, clocks, sport shirts, autographs, stones, clay...

Somos o que pensamos, e dizemos aquilo que pensamos com palavras. Se as palavras são tão mal usadas, deturpadas, mal pronunciadas muitas vezes, que pensamento podem expressar? Isso é frustrante.

Dignity has no price, when someone starts making small concessions, in the end, life loses all meaning.

Só porque vivemos absortos é que não reparamos que o que nos vai acontecendo deixa intacto, em cada momento, o que nos pode acontecer.

…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.

Certaines relations harmonieuses se créent et durent gr ce à un système complexe de menues contre-vérités, de renoncements, une espèce de ballet complice d’attitudes et de postures qui peut se résumer dans un proverbe jamais...

doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time,

Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.

The trouble with this dog is that it has grown too close to human beings, it will suffer as they do.

…as cartas de amor são rídiculas, isto é o que escreve quando já a morte vem subindo a escada, quando se torna de súbito claro que verdadeiramente ridículo é não ter recebido nunca uma carta...

The worst pain … isn’t the pain you feel at the time, it’s the pain you feel later on when there’s nothing you can do about it, They say that time heals all wounds, But...

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...

… it’s all words and only words, and beyond the words there’s nothing… a word, which, like all the others, can only be explained by more words, but since the words we use to explain...

Baltasar Mateus, o Sete-Sóis, está calado, apenas olha fixamente Blimunda, e de cada vez que ela o olha a ele sente um aperto na boca do estômago, porque olhos como estes nunca se viram, claros...

Cada día que nace es el primero para unos y será el último para otros.

Cómo está Marta, preguntará él, Cansada, pero bien, responderé yo, y estas palabras también las andamos diciendo constantemente, no me extrañaría nada que cuando transitemos de este mundo hacia el otro todavía consigamos encontrar fuerzas...

In a matter of a moment the amount of sand in the upper part of the hour-glass had dwindled dramatically, the tiny grains were rushing through the opening, each grain more eager to leave then...

… that’s how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.

Amo gli occhi di una donna, la sua pelle, la sua passione, tutto. Parlo tanto, fin troppo, ma ci sono momenti che rimango in silenzio ad ascoltarmi. E’ in quei momenti che fabbrico i miei...

There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close.

..there are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

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...

Sözcüklere ne kadar dikkat edilse azdır, onlar da insanlar gibi bir fikirden diğerine geçiverirler.

Não é só a voz do sangue que não precisa de olhos, o amor, que dizem ser cego, também tem a sua palavra a dizer

Não aprendeste nada, vai-te, dissera o Pastor, e quiçá quisesse dizer que ele não aprendera a defender a vida.

… time is a master of ceremonies who always ends up putting us in our rightful place, we advance, stop, and retreat according to his orders, our mistake lies in imagining that we can catch...

Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt. Some say that the main cause of this very serious difficulty...

If I’m sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?

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...

Se tens um coração de ferro, bom proveito. O meu, fizeram-no de carne, e sangra todo o dia.

One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger.

En su habitación del hotel la muerte, desnuda, está delante del espejo. No sabe quién es.

Contrary to what is generally believed, meaning and sense were never the same thing, meaning shows itself at once, direct, literal, explicit, enclosed in itself, univocal, if you like, while sense cannot stay still, it...

O dia em que será possível construir sobre o amor não chegou ainda…

Estoy de paso, había dicho el escritor, y estas son las señales que iba dejando al pasar.

Quien planta un árbol tampoco sabe si acabará ahorcándose en él

If, before every action, we were to begin by weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probable, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never...

Everything is argued over in this world. Apart from only one thing that is not argued over. Nobody argues about democracy. Democracy is there as if it was some sort of saint in the altar...

la culpa era de su ceguera de progenitor, la misma, (…) que nos impide ver que nuestros hijos, al fin y al cabo, son tan buenos o tan malos como los demás

Cennet, cehennem ya da benzer kavramlara gelince, doğrusu ölümünden sonra ne olduğu konusuyla sanıldığı kadar ilgili değilizdir,din sayın düşünür,dünyevi bir konudur aslında,öbür tarafla ya da göğün yedi katıyla hiçbir ilgisi yoktur. Duymayı alışık olduğunuz sözler...

…the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.

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...