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“Mas a vida seguia porque, mesmo quando se ama errado, ainda temos de viver. O amor não impedia a vida. Continua-se porque os carros não param, homens e mulheres se levantam e vão trabalhar. Todos os dias. Segue-se, não por bravura ou altivez, mas porque simplesmente não há o que fazer. E não há aí nenhum ensinamento ou lição a aprender. A não ser domar a tristeza e aceitar conviver com ela.”
― Jeferson Tenório, O avesso da pele

“But what can I do if you are not touched by my defects, whereas I loved yours. My candour was crushed underfoot by you.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life

“He could be heard moving about in his room with a tormented and maddening insistence, as if on those nights he was receiving the ghost of the man he had been until then, and both of the them, the past man and the present one, were locked in a silent struggle in which the past one was defending his wrathful solitude, his invulnerable standoffish way, his intransigent manners; and the present one his terrible and unchangeable will to free himself from his own previous man.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“People think you should be in love with other people or your work or justice. I’ve been in love with people and ideas in several cities and learned that the lovers I’ve loved and the ideas I’ve embraced depended on where I was, how cold it was, and what I had to do to be able to stand”
― Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.