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“I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants or shapeshifters, no angels or superhuman boys to save you. A place where people die and music disintegrates and things suck.”
― Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility

“There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Cântico VI

Tu tens um medo:
Acabar.
Não vês que acaba todo o dia.
Que morres no amor.
Na tristeza.
Na dúvida.
No desejo.
Que te renovas todo o dia.
No amor.
Na tristeza.
Na dúvida.
No desejo.
Que és sempre outro.
Que és sempre o mesmo.
Que morrerás por idades imensas.
Até não teres medo de morrer.

E então serás eterno.”
― Cecilia Meireles

“Freedom - that word that the human spirit feeds: that no one can explain, and anyone who does not understand.”
― Cecília Meireles, Romanceiro da Inconfidência

“Cântico II

Não sejas o de hoje.
Não suspires por ontens...
não queiras ser o de amanhã.
Faze-te sem limites no tempo.
Vê a tua vida em todas as origens.
Em todas as existências.
Em todas as mortes.
E sabes que serás assim para sempre.
Não queiras marcar a tua passagem.
Ela prossegue:
É a passagem que se continua.
É a tua eternidade.
És tu”
― Cecilia Meireles

“Renova-te.
Renasce em ti mesmo.
Multiplica os teus olhos, para verem mais.
Multiplica-se os teus braços para semeares tudo.
Destrói os olhos que tiverem visto.
Cria outros, para as visões novas.
Destrói os braços que tiverem semeado,
Para se esquecerem de colher.
Sê sempre o mesmo.
Sempre outro. Mas sempre alto.
Sempre longe.
E dentro de tudo.”
― Cecilia Meireles

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?”
― Clarice Lispector, A Hora da Estrela

“I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?

”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

“For one has the right to shout.
So, I am shouting.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

“To eat communion bread will be to taste the world's indifference, and to immerse myself in nothingness.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

“The doctor simply refused to take pity. And added: when you don’t know what to eat make a nice Italian spaghetti.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

“She knew what desire was — though she didn’t know she knew. It was like this: she was starving but not for food, it was a kind of painful taste that rose from the pit of her stomach and made her nipples quiver and her arms empty without an embrace.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

“She wasn’t crying because of the life she led: because, never having led any other, she’d accepted that with her that was just the way things were. But I also think she was crying because, through the music, she might have guessed there were other ways of feeling,”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

“É que ela sentia falta de encontrar-se consigo mesma e sofrer um pouco é um encontro.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

“Why don’t clouds fall, since everything else does? Because gravity is less than the strength of the air that keeps them up there. Clever, right? Yes, but one day they fall as rain. That is my revenge.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

“Only then did she see that her life was miserable. She felt like crying when she saw her other side, she who, as I said, had always thought she was happy.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

“Actually even the worst childhood is always enchanted, how awful.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“What of Art?
-It is a malady.
--Love?
-An Illusion.
--Religion?
-The fashionable substitute for Belief.
--You are a sceptic.
-Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
--What are you?
-To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde , The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
― Émile Zola