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“She remembered Joana as a little girl looking out to sea: the tranquillity that came from the ox, the sea, the cat. All is one. The confusion stemmed from the entwinement of the sea, the cat and the ox with herself. The confusion also arose because she did not know whether she had discovered 'all is one' when she was still a little girl standing looking out to sea, or later, when she remembered those moments.”
— Jul 20, 2025 10:56AM
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Decided to take this book slowly, chapter by chapter, because there’s so much to feel with every line…
“What’s going to happen to me?”
“I don’t know,” he replied after a brief silence.
“Perhaps you will find happiness one day, who knows, a happiness few people will envy you.
I’m not even sure that happiness is the right word. Perhaps you won’t find anyone else who feels as you do, like…”
— Jul 26, 2025 05:42AM
“What’s going to happen to me?”
“I don’t know,” he replied after a brief silence.
“Perhaps you will find happiness one day, who knows, a happiness few people will envy you.
I’m not even sure that happiness is the right word. Perhaps you won’t find anyone else who feels as you do, like…”
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“It now weighed heavily on her stomach and brought a sadness to her body which attached itself to that other sadness — something immovable behind the curtain — with which she had slept and awoken.”
— Jul 19, 2025 06:36AM
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“What do you get when you're happy? I wanted to know: when you're happy what happens? What comes afterwards?”
— Jul 13, 2025 04:25AM
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“Nothing escapes the perfection of things...but this does not explain why I am moved when Otávio coughs and puts his hand to his chest. Ah, pity is what I feel at such moments. Pity is my way of loving. Of hating and communicating. Pity is what sustains me against the world, just as one person lives through desire and another through fear. Pity for the things that happen without my knowing.”
— Jul 12, 2025 09:24AM
