in Quotes & Aphorisms (Death)
I'm not able to fear death. We will all turn skeletons and everything shall end. The skeleton becomes, therefore, the most radical form of nudity.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Moods)
The emptiness of old age had caused him to forget that, in matters of feeling and of the heart, too much is always better than too little.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)
I consider books to be good for our health, and also our spirits, and they help us to become poets or scientists, to understand the stars or else to discover them deep within the aspirations of certain characters, those who sometimes, on certain evenings, escape from the pages and walk among us humans, perhaps the most human of us all.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Creating is always so much more stimulating than destroying.
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Remembering the river of blood and suffering that would flow from his side and flood the entire earth, he called out to the open sky where God could be seen smiling, Men, forgive Him, for He knows not what He has done.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Death)
Yes, death has become a taboo. Today people want to avoid the subject and hide the deaths that happen around them. It is as if the world were a hotel where the dead usually disappear at night, without any guest being able to notice their presence. While movies and television address death, they do not touch the fundamental point of finitude. The deaths are false, the good guys get shot and come back to life. It's another way of treating death as unreal.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)
A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book, when I finished: "This is a book about Alentejo".
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The universe has no news of our existence.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
Every thing in life is a uniform; the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked.
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