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,...

Se sou pessimista é porque o mundo é péssimo, só isso.

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.

We have an odd relationship with words. We learn a few when we are small, throughout our lives we collect others through education, conversation, our contact with books, and yet, in comparison, there are only...

Tentei não fazer nada na minha vida que envergonhasse a criança que fui.Quando me for deste mundo, partirão duas pessoas. Sairei de mão dada, com essa criança que fui.

Tens de aprender a viver com a escuridão de fora como aprendeste a viver com a escuridão de dentro.

Assim é, mas a vantagem da igreja é que, embora às vezes o não pareça, ao gerir o que está no alto, governa o que está em baixo.

Fortunately the essence of this revelation did not escape Mary despite the angel’s obscure speech, and, much surprised, she asked him, So Jesus is my son and the son of the Lord, Woman, what are...

Samoća nije živeti sam, samoća je kad nismo sposobni da pravimo društvo nekome ili nečemu što se nalazi duboko u nama, samoća nije usamljeno drvo nasred puste ravnice, to je rastojanje između skrivenih sokova i...

A viagem não acaba nunca. Só os viajantes acabam

Cain considers life and can find no explanation for it, there is that woman, who although clearly sick with desire is enjoying postponing the moment of surrender, which is not at all the right word,...

Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us.

..then he added, as if requiring a response to his own remark,’Probably the greater the difference, the greater the similarity, and the greater the similarity, the greater the difference,’ at that moment he did not...

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.

Life is like that, full of words that are not worth saying or that were worth saying once but not any more, each word that we utter will take up the space of another more...

There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs

… assim é que a vida deve ser, quando um desanima, o outro agarra-se às próprias tripas e faz delas coração.

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...