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.