Alexandre Soares

“I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”
― Plutarch

“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”
― Otto Rank

“It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling...”
― V.S. Naipaul, Magic Seeds

“That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing, and anything that perished took a long time to be forgotten. But everything that had once existed left its traces, and people lived on memories just as they now live on the ability to forget quickly and emphatically.”
― Joseph Roth, The Radetzky March