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“It is December, and nobody asked if I was ready.”
― Sarah Kay

“Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
― Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays

“O subdesenvolvimento não é uma etapa do desenvolvimento. É a sua consequência.”
― Eduardo Galeano, As Veias Abertas da América Latina

“Viver, naturalmente, nunca é fácil. Continuamos fazendo os gestos que a existência impõe por muitos motivos, o primeiro dos quais é o costume. Morrer por vontade própria supõe que se reconheceu, mesmo instintivamente, o caráter ridículo desse costume, a ausência de qualquer motivo profundo para viver, o caráter insensato da agitação cotidiana e a inutilidade do sofrimento. Qual é então o sentimento incalculável que priva o espírito do sono necessário para a vida? Um mundo que se pode explicar, mesmo com raciocínios errôneos, é um mundo familiar. Mas num universo repentinamente privado de ilusões e de luzes, pelo contrário, o homem se sente um estrangeiro. É um exílio sem solução, porque está privado das lembranças de uma pátria perdida ou da esperança de uma terra prometida. Esse divórcio entre o homem e sua vida, o ator e seu cenário é propriamente o sentimento do absurdo. E como todos os homens sadios já pensaram no seu próprio suicídio, pode-se reconhecer, sem maiores explicações, que há um laço direto entre tal sentimento e a aspiração ao nada.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.”
― Edvard Munch

“A fé não substitui a racionalidade, mas a exige.”
― Bento XVI, Escatologia - Morte e Vida Eterna

“Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”
― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

“I liked Hell,
I liked to go there alone
relieved to lie in the wreckage, ruined, physically undone.
The worst had happened. What else could hurt me then?
I thought it was the worst, thought nothing worse could come.
Then nothing did, and no one.”
― Marie Howe, Magdalene

“Life is drenched with emotion: we are dipped in each other’s colors, only to dry up again —

Isn’t that so? In fact, the world is fluctuating as it always does,

I think it’s only me who’s changed the most.

To understand and humbly accept this change.

I try to believe that this is the base for happiness”
― Kim Jonghyun, Skeleton Flower: Things That Have Been Released and Set Free

“It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

“You know what they say," Dad said. "If you love something set it free."

"What if he doesn't come back?"

"Something do, somethings don't," he said, reaching to tweak her nose. "I'll always come back to you anyway."

"You don't light up," Hadley said, but Dad only smiled.

"I do when I'm with you.”
― Jennifer E. Smith , The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight