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“This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting and liberating about being an actual definite someone, rather than a collection of contradictory potential someones.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

“You may be poor, but the one thing nobody can take away from you is the freedom to fuck up your life whatever way you want to.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

“Sina de mulher é essa: ficar em casa esperando, enquanto os homens vão em suas andanças.
Mas por que será que o tempo custa tanto a passar quando há guerra?
Decerto não pode andar ligeiro, tropeçando num morto a cada passo.
E por que às vezes o vento geme tanto que parece ferido?
Decerto porque viu muito horror no seu caminho.
Foi uma guerra tremenda. Durou dez anos.”
― Erico Verissimo

“A viagem não começa quando se percorrem distâncias, mas quando se atravessam as nossas fronteiras interiores. A viagem acontece quando acordamos fora do corpo, longe do último lugar onde podemos ter casa.”
― Mia Couto, O Outro Pé da Sereia

“A saudade é a única dor que me faz esquecer as outras dores.”
― Mia Couto, O Outro Pé da Sereia

“O que não é nosso num mundo onde tudo nos roubam?”
― Mia Couto, O Outro Pé da Sereia

“You are what you share.”
― Charles Leadbeater, We-Think : Mass Innovation, Not Mass Production

“It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge.”
― Caleb Carr

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.”
― Simone de Beauvoir , The Second Sex

“Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot”
― Iain M. Banks

“Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying.”
― Iain M. Banks, Against a Dark Background

“You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?” Aunty Ifeka said. “Your life belongs to you and you alone.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

“You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.”
― Joe Hill, Horns

“You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.”
― Steve Jobs

“These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Comment dans la condition féminine peut s'accomplir un être humain ? Quelles voies lui sont ouvertes ? Lesquelles aboutissent à des impasses ? Comment retrouver l'indépendance au sein de la dépendance ? Quelles circonstances limites la liberté de la femme et peut-elles les dépasser ? Ce sont là les questions fondamentales que nous voudrions élucider. C'est dire que nous inteéressant aux chances de l'individu, nous ne définirons pas ces chances en termes de bonheur, mais en termes de liberté.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang on to it. You must not let yourself be waylaid and have it taken from you.”
― Alice Munro, Runaway: Stories

“The only dream come true I relish with a vengeance is whistling like a man. I was told a woman fit to be married should not whistle. I don't want to be married so the more they point at me, the louder I whistle. My load is still heavy on my head, but my heart is light, for I know, like the sun that I shall not fail to rise every morning. Be it cloudy, foggy or rainy, I shall not fail to rise. And I shall whistle as loud as I want. For me, it is the sound of freedom.”
― Lucy Michot, Chinongwa

“She felt there was no difference between her and the sacrificial hen with a rag tied to its neck.”
― Lucy Michot, Chinongwa

“Girl-children do not reproduce their own name. They bring forth offspring for strangers. They receive, carry and bring forth other people's seeds. Their own names, they sweep off the surface of the earth.”
― Lucy Michot, Chinongwa

“Have you thought about the evolutionary psychology of it? Men have evolved to be strong worker homestead-keepers, while women - with babies to protect from harm - have had to become aggressive and violent. The few partial patriarchies that have ever existed in human society have been very peaceful places.”
― Naomi Alderman, The Power

“There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say
that we devise their misery. But they
themselves- in their depravity- design
grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“out of sight,out of mind”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“Ce n'est pas dur à deviner: toutes ces choses qui passent, que nous manquons d'un iota et qui sont ratées pour l'éternité...Toutes ces paroles que nous aurions dû dire, ces gestes que nous aurions dû faire, ces kairos fulgurants qui ont un jour surgi, qu'on n'a pas su saisir et qui se sont enfoncés pour toujours dans le néant...L'échec à un pouce près.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“I want my heart to be the thin place. I don't want to board a plane to feel the kiss of heaven. I want to carry it with me wherever I go. I want my fragile, hurting heart, to recognize fleeting kairos, eternal moments as they pass. I want to be my own mountain and my own retreat.”
― Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith