Unless Caesar Augustus is unwittingly complying with the will of God, if it is true that in His divine wisdom He has ordained that Joseph and Mary should go to Bethlehem at this time.
Um dia que já lá vai D. João o Segundo, nosso rei, perfeito de cognome e a meu ver humorista perfeito, deu a certo fidalgo uma ilha imaginária, diga-me você se sabe doutro país onde pudesse ter aconte...
To look, see and observe are different ways of using the organ of sight, each with its own intensity, even when there is some deterioration, for example, to look without seeing, when someone is distra...
There were men and women who appeared as fluid as ghosts, they could have been attending a burial out of curiosity, merely to recall how it had been when they were buried.
There are such moments in life: one unexpectedly discovers that perfection exists, that it, too, is a tiny sphere traveling in time, empty, transparent, luminous, and which sometimes (rarely) comes in...
The time for miracles has either passed or not come yet, besides, miracles, genuine miracles, whatever people say, are not such a good idea, if it means destroying the very order of things in order to...
The hidden meaning of life . . . But the hidden meaning of life is that life has no hidden meaning.
The difficult thing isn't living with people, it's understanding them
The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.
The day before is what we bring to the day we're actually living through, life is a matter of carrying along all those days-before just as someone might carry stones, and when we can no longer cope wi...
The church has never been asked to explain anything, our specialty, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralization of the overly curious mind through faith,
That's how life is, what it gives with one hand one day, it takes away with the other.
Tanto nos cuesta la idea de que tenemos que morir, dijo la mujer del médico, que siempre buscamos disculpas para los muertos, es como si anticipadamente estuviésemos pidiendo que nos disculpen cuando...
Talvez este Deus e o que há-de vir não sejam mais do que heterónimos,De quem, de quê, perguntou curiosa outra voz, De Pessoa, foi o que se percebeu, mas também podia ter sido, Da Pessoa
Sözcüklere ne kadar dikkat edilse azdır, onlar da insanlar gibi bir fikirden diğerine geçiverirler.
São coisas que não se sabem explicar, como, sendo as pessoas feitas das mesmas humaníssimas matérias, esta carne, estes ossos, este sangue, esta pele e este riso, este suor e esta lágrima, vemos que s...
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.
Sou o rei deste reino, e os barcos do reino pertencem-me todos, Mais lhes pertencerás tu a eles do que eles a ti, Que queres dizer, perguntou o rei, inquieto, Que tu, sem eles, és nada, e que eles, se...
Somewhere in the infinite that He occupies, God advances and withdraws the pawns of the other games He plays, but it is too soon to worry about this one, all He need do for the present is allow things...
Se tal vier a acontecer, a única conclusão lógica a extrair de tudo quanto se viu até agora, é que, afinal, a viagem não valeu a pena. O que, por outro lado, seria, ou será, uma maneira demasiado simp...