Catarina

“- Habitualmente não passamos certificados - afirmou o gato, carrancudo. - Mas para si, abrimos uma excepção.
E antes que Nikolai Ivanovitch tivesse tempo de se recompor, Hella, ainda nua, já estava sentada à máquina de escrever e o gato ditava-lhe:
- Pelo presente certifico que o seu portador, Nikolai Ivanovitch, passou a noite indicada num baile em casa de Satã, tendo sido recrutado como meio de transporte... Hella, abre parênteses! Entre parênteses escreve: «porco». Assinado, Behemot.”
― Mikhail Bugakov

“The exact eye: exact observation: it was a man's work. The only
work for a man. Why then were artists soft: effeminate: not men at all:
whilst the army officer, who had the inexact mind of the schoolteacher,
was a manly man? Quite a manly man: until he became an old woman!”
― Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not...

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
― Franz Kafka

“Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."
(Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)”
― Voltaire