Matilde Simões

“E as pessoas nem sonham que quem acaba uma coisa nunca é aquele que a começou, mesmo que ambos tenham um nome igual, que isso só é que se mantém constante, nada mais”
― José Saramago, The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

“In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one might find access; in his maturity he had decided it was the heaven of a false religion, toward which one ought to gaze with an amused disbelief, a gently familiar contempt, and an embarrassed nostalgia. Now in his middle age he began to know that it was neither a state of grace nor an illusion; he saw it as a human act of becoming, a condition that was invented and modified moment by moment and day by day, by the will and the intelligence and the heart.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“Creio que todo o homem ama sempre a mulher a quem está a beijar, ainda que seja por desespero,...”
― José Saramago, The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

“..."o Bem e o Mal não existem em si mesmos, cada um deles é somente a ausência do outro.”
― José Saramago, O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo