57 quotes
I just want to say that I write not for money but on impulse.
I am so lost. But that is exactly how we live; lost in time and space.
There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences.
An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures (1968)
I have an affectionate fondness for the unfinished, the poorly made, whatever awkwardly attempts a little flight and falls clumsily to the ground.
Could love be giving your own solitude to another? Because that's the ultimate thing you can give of yourself.
An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures (1968)
One of the most intense aspirations of the spirit is to dominate exterior reality through the spirit. Lucrécia doesn't manage to do this--so she "clings" to that reality, takes as her own life the wider life of the world.
I must live little by little, it's no good living everything at once. (p27)
Um Sopro de Vida (1978)
I’m an insurmountable mountain along my own path. But sometimes through a word of yours or a word I read, suddenly everything becomes clear.
An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures (1968)
Oh God! Having just one life was so little.
An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures (1968)
Who hasn't asked oneself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human? (p7 Benjamin Moser translation)
A hora da estrela (1977)
In the last analysis a man is measured by his hunger; there is no other way of figuring things out. (chapter 1)
A Maçã no escuro (1961)
Let the author beware of popularity, otherwise he will be defeated by success. (p144)
Um Sopro de Vida (1978)
Suffering for a being deepens the heart within the heart. (p52)
Um Sopro de Vida (1978)
The truth is always some inner power without explanation. The more genuine part of my life is unrecognizable, extremely intimate and impossible to define. (p11)
A hora da estrela (1977)
There wasn't so much as a gesture that could express the new reality. (9: The Exposed Treasure)
A cidade sitiada (1949)
He who emphasizes the ritual of faith can lose the point of faith. (p141)
Um Sopro de Vida (1978)
The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence. (p90)
A paixão segundo G.H (1964)
Living isn't courage, knowing that you're living, that's courage (p16)
A paixão segundo G.H (1964)
Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself? (p43)
Um Sopro de Vida (1978)
The words are pebbles rolling in the river. (p179)
Perto do coração selvagem (1943)