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“E as pessoas nem sonham que quem acaba uma coisa nunca é aquele que a começou, mesmo que ambos tenham um nome igual, que isso só é que se mantém constante, nada mais.”
― José Saramago, The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

“... it is, after all, not necessary to fly right into the middle of the sun, but it is necessary to crawl to a clean little spot on Earth where the sun sometimes shines and one can warm oneself a little.”
― Franz Kafka, Letter to His Father

“For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“That acknowledgement could arrive after several decades, or it could happen tonight, but the time will come. Eventually, I'll have to fully contend with this simple fact: the love I was promised was conditional.”
― Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

“At times I imagine the map of the world laid out and you stretched across it. And all that is left for my life are the areas you don’t cover or can’t reach.”
― Franz Kafka, Letter to His Father

“I’ve spent much of my life chipping away toward the truth, while terrified to cause a collapse.”
― Elliot Page, Pageboy: A Memoir

“For as long as he could remember, he’d suffered from a vague nagging feeling of being not all there.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“A insónia traz lembranças que eu não queria; o dormir lava memórias que eu queria guardar. O sono é a minha doença, a minha loucura.”
― Mia Couto, Confession of the Lioness

“If a tree falls in the forest there are other trees listening.”
― Peter Wohlleben, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

“Compenetro-me, então, do absurdo da minha condição: eu, que nunca levantara a voz, gritava agora por quem não pode escutar. Têm razão os que me acusam: estou louca, perdi o mando em mim. E desabo em pranto, como se estivesse reparando o quanto não chorei quando nasci. Adjiru tinha razão: tristeza não é chorar. Tristeza é não ter para quem chorar.”
― Mia Couto, Confession of the Lioness

“I know it is my father's first time on this Earth, too. And I know He had it worse when he was little. But I was little too”
― Franz Kafka, Letter to His Father

“Rose 1:1–2. She raised a flaming sword, not to rend her heart, but to seal the wound where a heart had been. For those who cast her out did not know this steadfast flame, alight with righteous anger, would never cease until the heavenly kingdom fell.”
― Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

“Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“Os livros entregavam-me vozes como se fossem sombras em pleno deserto.”
― Mia Couto, Confession of the Lioness

“Num mundo de homens e caçadores, a palavra foi a minha primeira arma.”
― Mia Couto, Confession of the Lioness