Morgana

“A maior solidão é a do ser que não ama. A maior solidão é a do ser que se ausenta, que se defende, que se fecha, que se recusa a participar da vida humana. A maior solidão é a do homem encerrado em si mesmo, no absoluto de si mesmo, e que não dá a quem pede o que ele pode dar de amor, de amizade, de socorro. O maior solitário é o que tem medo de amar, o que tem medo de ferir e de ferir-se, o ser casto da mulher, do amigo, do povo, do mundo. Esse queima como uma lâmpada triste, cujo reflexo entristece também tudo em torno. Ele é a angústia do mundo que o reflete. Ele é o que se recusa às verdadeiras fontes da emoção, as que são o patrimônio de todos, e, encerrado em seu duro privilégio, semeia pedras do alto da sua fria e desolada torre.”
― Vinicius de Moraes, Para Viver um Grande Amor: Crônicas e Poemas

“I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort”
― Clarice Lispector, A Hora da Estrela

“I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice, indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in F. W.

I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house this evening or never.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“I went to the shoemaker to collect his wastepaper. One of them asked me if my book was communistic. I replied that it was realistic. He cautioned me that it was not wise to write of reality.”
― Carolina Maria de Jesus, Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus, 50th Anniversary Edition