Ester Peralta > Ester's Quotes

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“I am rooted, but I flow.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Eu leio antropofagicamente: quero devorar aquele que escreveu”
― Rubem Alves, Ostra feliz não faz pérola

“A ideia de que a medicina é uma luta contra a morte está errada. A medicina é uma luta pela vida boa, da qual a morte faz parte.”
― Rubem Alves, Ostra feliz não faz pérola

“Não haverá borboletas se a vida não passar por longas e silenciosas metamorfoses”
― Rubem Alves

“A poesia está guadarda nas palavras - é tudo que
eu sei.
Meu fado é o de não saber quase tudo.
Sobre o nada eu tenho profundidades.
Não tenho conexões com a reladidade.
Poderoso para mim não é aquele que descobre ouro.
Para mim poderoso é aquele que descobre as
insignificâncias (do mundo e as nossa).
Por essa pequena sentença me elogiaram de imbecil.
Fiquei emocionado.
Sou fraco para elogios.”
― Manoel de Barros, Tratado Geral das Grandezas do Ínfimo

“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.”
― Milan Kundera

“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”
― Rumi

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”
― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

“To laugh is to live profoundly.”
― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

“Living is being happy: seeing, hearing, touching, drinking, eating, urinating, defecating, diving into the water and gazing at the sky, laughing and crying.”
― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

“Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.”
― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

“I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.”
― Wislawa Szymborska, Nonrequired Reading

“Memory is like a curse. We fall into eternity, and memory is a weight that keeps pulling us to where we can never go back to.”
― José Luís Peixoto, Antídoto

“Beyond the clouds, above people, beneath the skin, inside people, we’re waiting for you. We see you now, as you read. We’ll see you when you stop thinking about these words. Above and inside your face, we know your secrets. We know what you hide from yourself. You can’t escape us. We hold your heart in the palm of our hand. If we like, we can squeeze it. If we like, we can crush it. There’s nothing you can do to stop us. Our gaze notices your every single move and your every single word. Say a word now. Make a move. We smile at your words, as we smile at your silence. No one will be able to protect you. No one can protect you now. You’re even less than you imagine. We’ve seen a thousand generations of men like you. It was our pleasure to let them walk on the lines of our hands. It was our pleasure to take everything away from them. We guided entire generations of men through tunnels we built that led nowhere. And when they arrived at nothing, we smiled. You’re just like them. We’re waiting for you above and inside your face. Continue on your way. Follow that line of our hand. We know where that tunnel you walk through will end. Keep on walking. We see you and smile. Beyond the clouds, we are fear. Beneath the skin, we are fear.”
― José Luís Peixoto, Antídoto

“Sempre gostei de procurar livros, não quero saber onde estão, basta-me saber que existem.”
― José Luís Peixoto, Livro