João Costa

“Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“Os seus amigos gostam dos poemas que escreve?
'Acho que sim. Acho que gostam bastante.'
'Muito bem, mas não se esqueça: o seu talento só será tolerado enquanto aquilo que alcançar não fizer sombra à mediania daqueles que o rodeiam.”
― David Soares, A Conspiração dos Antepassados

“There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived.”
― Steven Erikson, Toll the Hounds

“The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.”
― Albert Camus