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“They were like two enemies in love with one another.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Um morto é um escândalo, mil mortos são uma estatística, afirmou Goebbels”
― Luis Sepúlveda, As Rosas de Atacama

“The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”
― Marcel Proust

“Encheremos o mundo de coisas preciosas. Serão tantas que os homens passarão por elas julgando-as banais.”
― Afonso Cruz, Para Onde Vão Os Guarda-Chuvas

“Não é a falta de pessoas à nossa volta que faz a solidão. São as pessoas erradas.”
― Afonso Cruz, Para Onde Vão Os Guarda-Chuvas

“There is no greater sorrow
Than to recall a happy time
When miserable.”
― Dante Alighieri

“Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar...”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

“You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave home”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Mermaid Chair

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

“Where there's life, death is inevitable. Dying's easy; it's living that's hard. The harder it gets, the stronger the will to live. And the greater the fear of death, the greater the struggle to keep on living.”
― Mo Yan, Big Breasts & Wide Hips

“Are women really wonderful things? Maybe they are. Yes, women are wonderful things, but when all is said and done, they aren't really “things”
― Mo Yan, Big Breasts & Wide Hips

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Não entender é também fundamental para a paixão.”
― Valter Hugo Mãe, Contra mim

“Só se é quando nos escolhem, quando nos aceitam”
― Valter Hugo Mãe, Contra mim

“Soube sempre que meu mundo era afectivo. Quero dizer, o que eu sabia era sobretudo gostar de alguém. Aquilo que o meu avô valorizava na criança que ali via, o empenho colocado em gostar de alguém. Toda a sabedoria deveria resultar na pura capacidade de amar e cuidar de alguém. Não era o mais esclarecido dos meninos mas, àquele tempo, ainda tinha o mais limpo dos corações. Coisa que se suja pelos anos.”
― Valter Hugo Mãe, Contra mim

“Sabe, sargento, a loucura, quando dá a um grande número de pessoas, chama-se sociedade contemporânea. Quando dá a uma pessoa só, interna-se essa pessoa.”
― Afonso Cruz, Jesus Cristo Bebia Cerveja

“But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“I loved something I made up, something that's just as dead as Melly is. I made a pretty suit of clothes and fell in love with it. And when Ashley came riding along, so handsome, so different, I put that suit on him and made him wear it whether it fitted him or not. And I wouldn't see what he really was. I kept on loving the pretty clothes—and not him at all.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“Being a heterosexual woman who loved men meant being a translator for their emotions, a palliative nurse for their pride and a hostage negotiator for their egos.”
― Dolly Alderton, Ghosts

“A solidão deve ser a única emoção que não conseguimos partilhar, se o fizermos ela desaparece.”
― Afonso Cruz, Flores

“Cheira tudo a flores, o fim das coisas cheira a flores, não é a esgoto e a podre.”
― Afonso Cruz, Flores

“Vou. Parto para o que sobra de ti e tudo são resquícios do que foste.”
― José Luís Peixoto, Morreste-me

“loads of people think it, but everyone’s too scared to say it. And it’s not about feminism, and it’s not about men and women, it’s just a fact about life. Loads of people aren’t happy until they’re in a relationship. Happiness, for them, is being in a partnership.”
― Dolly Alderton, Ghosts

“Don't make me be resilient / i so want to be soft / if u let me be myself / u will be the first one who did”
― Lana del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984