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For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone; the shell cracks, its insides come out, and everything changes. To someone who doesn't understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.
Cynthia Occelli
Tragam-me esquecimento em travessas! Quero comer o abandono da vida! Quero perder o hábito de gritar para dentro. ― Álvaro de Campos Paragem. Zona
“A virtude não iria tão longe se a vaidade não lhe fizesse companhia.”
— François de La Rochefoucauld, em “Reflexões ou sentenças e máximas morais”
“Costumamos nos envaidecer das paixões, mesmo das mais criminosas; mas a inveja é uma paixão tímida e vergonhosa que jamais ousamos confessar.”
— François de La Rochefoucauld, em “ Reflexões ou sentenças e máximas morais”
Há em olhos humanos, uma coisa terrível: o aviso inevitável da consciência, o grito clandestino de haver alma.
― Livro do Desassossego, Bernardo Soares
As horas, como um carro ao entardecer, regressam chiando pelas sombras dos meus pensamentos. Se ergo os olhos de sobre o meu pensamento, eles ardem-me do espectáculo do mundo.
― Livro do Desassossego, Bernardo Soares
“Sem a loucura que é o homem Mais que a besta sadia, Cadáver adiado que procria?”
Fernando Pessoa, Mensagem
I drank for some time, three or four days. I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that I wanted a job, that I was qualified for a job, was too much for me. Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.
—Charles Bukowski, Factotum
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music"
-Friedrich Nitzsche
Considero a vida uma estalagem onde tenho que me demorar até que chegue a diligência do abismo. Não sei onde me levará, porque não sei nada.
Poderia considerar esta estalagem uma prisão, porque estou compelido a aguardar nela; poderia considerá-la um lugar de sociáveis, porque aqui me encontro com outros. Não sou, porém, nem impaciente nem comum.
Deixo ao que são os que se fecham no quarto, deitados moles na cama onde esperam sem sono; deixo ao que fazem os que conversam nas salas, de onde as músicas e as vozes chegam cómodas até mim.
Sento-me à porta e embebo meus olhos e ouvidos nas cores e nos sons da paisagem, e canto lento, para mim só, vagos cantos que componho enquanto espero.
― ”Fernando Pessoa. Livro do Desassossego, p.48 Companhia das Letras
One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.”
— Hart Crane, from a letter quoted in Hart Crane: The Life of an American Poet by Philip Horton (Norton, 1937)
Todo mundo tem uma dor para chorar no meio da madrugada, no final da festa, no bar da esquina.
“Whatever you describe to another person is also a revelation of who you are and who you think you are. You can not describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything.”
— James Baldwin, Conversations With James Baldwin
Ah, é a minha saudade de quem eu poderia ter sido que me distrai e atormenta!
― Bernardo Soares, O Livro do Desassossego
The larger the group, the more toxic, the more of your beauty as an individual you have to surrender for the sake of group thought. And when you suspend your individual beauty, you also give up a lot of your humanity. You will do things in the name of a group that you would never do on your own; injuring, hurting, killing, drinking are all part of it, because you've lost your identity, because you now owe your allegiance to this thing that's bigger than you are, and that controls you.
George Carlin, Last Words
“Logic may indeed be unshakable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.”
— Franz Kafka, The Trial
“Deve haver ilhas lá para o sul das coisas Onde sofrer seja uma coisa mais suave, onde viver custe menos ao pensamento, e onde a gente possa fechar os olhos e adormecer ao sol. E acordar sem ter que pensar em responsabilidades sociais…”
—
Fernando Pessoa
• Novas Poesias Inéditas. Fernando Pessoa. (Direcção, recolha e notas de Maria do Rosário Marques Sabino e Adelaide Maria Monteiro Sereno.) Lisboa: Ática, 1973 (4ª ed. 1993).