Fernanda Gomes
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there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.
“O Crisóstomo explicava que o amor era uma atitude. Uma predisposição natural para se ser a favor de outrem. É isso o amor. Uma predisposição natural para se favorecer alguém. Ser, sem sequer se pensar, por outra pessoa.”
― O Filho de Mil Homens
― O Filho de Mil Homens
“Rhythms are relations between what you believe and what you believed before.”
― Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
― Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
“Estava sozinho, os seus amores haviam falhado e sentia que tudo lhe faltava pela metade, como se tivesse apenas metade dos olhos, metade do peito e metade das pernas, metade da casa e dos talheres, metade dos dias, metade das palavras para se explicar às pessoas. Via-se metade ao espelho e achava tudo demasiado breve, precipitado, como se as coisas lhe fugissem, a esconderem-se para evitar a sua companhia. Via-se metade ao espelho porque se via sem mais ninguém, carregado de ausências e de silêncios como os precipícios ou poços fundos. Para dentro do homem era um sem fim, e pouco ou nada do que continha lhe servia de felicidade. Para dentro do homem o homem caía.”
― O Filho de Mil Homens
― O Filho de Mil Homens
“It was a different precondition that tipped the balance: the state of contrariety. My ambition was to negate. The world, whether dense or hollow, provoked only my negations. When I was supposed to be awake, I was asleep; when I was supposed to speak, I was silent; when a pleasure offered itself to me, I avoided it. My hunger, my thirst, my loneliness and boredom and fear were all weapons aimed at my enemy, the world. They didn’t matter a whit to the world, of course, and they tormented me, but I got a gruesome satisfaction from my sufferings. They proved my existence. All my integrity seemed to lie in saying No.”
― Girl, Interrupted
― Girl, Interrupted
“Could he really do the gruesome things he does to her and believe at the same time that he’s acting out of love? Is the world such an evil place, that love should be indistinguishable from the basest and most abusive forms of violence?”
― Normal People
― Normal People
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