“Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?”
― A Hora da Estrela
― A Hora da Estrela
“Creo que no te quiero, que solamente quiero la imposibilidad tan obvia de quererte. Como el guante izquierdo enamorado de la mano derecha.”
― Save Twilight: Selected Poems
― Save Twilight: Selected Poems
“I love her passionately with a morbid intensity; madly as one can only love a woman who never responds to our love with anything but an eternally uniform, eternally calm, stony smile.”
― Venus in Furs
― Venus in Furs
“Las grandes pasiones parten de la antítesis.”
― Venus in Furs
― Venus in Furs
“Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.”
― The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation
― The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation
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