“So much of language is unspoken. So much of language is compromised of looks and gestures and sounds that are not words. People are ignorant of the vast complexity of their own communication.”
― The Art of Racing in the Rain
― The Art of Racing in the Rain
“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“Tentei explicar aos meus pais que a vida é um presente engraçado. Ao principio sobrestimamos este presente: acreditamos ter recebido a vida eterna. Mais tarde, subestimamo-lo, achamos que é uma porcaria, muito curta, ficamos quase tentados a deitá-la fora. Por fim, percebemos que não era um presente, era apenas um empréstimo. E então esforçamo-nos por merecê-lo.”
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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
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