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The caressing, melodious tones of humility and flattery never sang in the ears of the clerk Senhor José, these have never had a place in the chromatic scale of feelings normally shown to him.
All the Names (1997)
The question suddenly came into my head, 'And if we were all blind?' And then immediately, as if answering myself, 'But we are all blind.'
Where do begin, he asked, Where you always have to begin, at the beginning
The Cave (2000)
Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1993)
It’s is the old who age a day every hour
The Cave (2000)
The sceptics, who are many and stubborn, claim that, when it comes to human nature, if it is true that the opportunity does not always make the thief, it is also true that it helps a lot.
Blindness (1995)
The young have the ability, but lack the wisdom, and the old have the wisdom, but lack the ability.
The Cave (2000)
God is the silence of the universe, and man is the cry that gives meaning to that silence.
If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.
Blindness (1995)
No one has committed so much sin in his life that he deserves to die twice.
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (1991)
We live in a very peculiar world. Democracy isn't discussed, as if it was taken for granted, as if democracy had taken God's place, who is also not discussed.
God, the devil, good, evil, it's all in our heads, not in Heaven or Hell, which we also invented. We do not realize that, having invented God, we immediately became His slaves.
Even the strongest spirits have the moments of irresistible weakness
The Cave (2000)
I don’t doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I’m convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him.
The Cave (2000)
Age carries with it a double load of guilt
The Cave (2000)
Let us think that no human rights will exist without symmetry of the duties that correspond to them. It is not to be expected that government in the next 50 years will do it.
We humans are, at bottom, carriers of the time, because we take it with us, we use it, sometimes we waste it and sometimes something remains, though everything is doomed to oblivion.
No, there are three people in a marriage, there's the woman, there's the man, and there's what I call the third person, the most important, the person who is composed of the man and woman together.
All the Names (1997)
Be content to bless each other, that is all the blessing you need, and how I wish that all blessings were so.
Baltasar and Blimunda (1982)
Once the machine starts to fly, the heavens will be filled with music.
Baltasar and Blimunda (1982)