Afonso Vieira

“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
― Ovid

“I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“Times change, as do our wills, What we are - is ever changing; All the world is made of change, And forever attaining new qualities.”
― Luís Vaz de Camões, Sonetos de Camões

“He lived in chambers that had once belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building up a yard, where it had so little business to be, that one could scarcely help fancying it must have run there when it was a young house, playing at hide-and-seek with other houses, and forgotten the way out again.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol