Mauro

“São os espíritos superficiais que mais crêem nos êxitos retumbantes, nas fórmulas fáceis para vencer, pois isso lhes lisonjeia a incapacidade e a fraqueza de vontade.Os lances engenhosos, em que se torce a moral para obter um mais rápido efeito, conseguem grande público.Mas a vida, cujas leis são infinitamente mais sóbrias, mais puras que as dos homens, não as aceita”
― Agustina Bessa-Luís, A Sibila

“A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.”
― George Orwell, All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ...each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition-- all such distortions within our own egos-- condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other. That's how it is in all living relationships except when there is that rare case of two people who love intensely enough to burn through all those layers of opacity and see each other's naked hearts.”
― Tennessee Williams

“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
― George Orwell, 1984