Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men
Dios me creó para que yo lo imitara de noche. Él es el Sol, yo soy la Luna. Mi luz flota sobre todo lo que es fútil o ha terminado, fuego fatuo, márgenes de río, pantanos y sombras.
If the heart could think it would stop beating.
La música, la luz de la luna y los sueños son mis armas mágicas.
Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we...
I had come from wondrous lands, from landscapes more enchanting than life, but only to myself did I ever mention these lands, and I said nothing about the landscapes which I saw in dreams. My feet ste...
A reformer is a man who sees the world's superficial ills and sets out to cure them by aggravating the more basic ills.
Três vezes do leme as mãos ergueu,Três vezes ao leme as reprendeu,E disse no fim de tremer três vezes:«Aqui ao leme sou mais do que eu:Sou um Povo que quer o que é teu;E mais que o mostrengo, que me a...
„Mi-am cucerit, puţin câte puţin, teritoriul interior care urma să fie al meu. Mi-am cerut, unul după altul, întinsurile de mlaştină în care nu mai rămăsese nimic din mine. Şi am scos la iveală fiinţa...
Baste a quem baste o que lhe bastaO bastante de lhe bastar!A vida é breve, a alma é vasta:Ter é tardar.
On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there's...
My dreams are a stupid shelter, like an umbrella against lightning.
I’m riding a tram and, as is my habit, slowly absorbing every detail of the people around me. By ‘detail’ I mean things, voices, words. In the dress of the girl directly in front of me, for example, I...
Tanto tenho vivido sem ter vivido! Tanto tenho pensado sem ter pensado! Pesam sobre mim mundos de violências paradas, de aventuras tidas sem movimento. Estou farto do que nunca tive nem terei, tedient...
Pertenço a um gênero de portuguesesQue depois de estar a Índia descoberta
Children are particularly literary, for they say what they feel not what someone has taught them to feel.
The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert like the fatigue of emotional experience. It's the weight of o...
Knowing how easily even the smallest things torture me, I deliberately avoid contact with them. A cloud passing in front of the sun is enough to make me suffer, how then should I not suffer in the dar...
If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.