Thiago Matos

“Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.”
― Günter Grass, The Tin Drum

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“the activity of modern poets stands under the decree of necessity, as though they were building a pyramid, the monstruos residence of a dead King or an unborn God.”
― Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Selected Prose

“To have another language is to possess a second soul.”
― Charlemagne