“Then and Now In younger days each morning I rose with joy, To weep at nightfall; now, in my later years, Though doubting I begin my day, yet Always its end is serene and holy.”
― Selected Poems and Fragments
― Selected Poems and Fragments
“Wasn't that itself the miracle--that love really was an obscure and unfathomable connection between individuals, and not an economic contest where everyone was matched up according to how quantifiably lovable they were?”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“In the end, everything will be okay. If it's not okay, it's not yet the end. ~Fernando Sabino, translated from Portuguese”
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“There are people in the world for whom "coming along" is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.”
― Go Tell It on the Mountain
― Go Tell It on the Mountain
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