When dark sadness crosses your path, don't fear it, look at it and smile; For man's greatest cowardice is to cry when he feels like sleeping...
The virtuous soul desires good with firmness and peace.
Thomas Aquinas
I started walking faster to escape, and God, God was on my side...
Caio Fernando Abreu
Desire blooms, possession makes all things wither.
Marcel Proust
[It appears on Fernando Sabino's tombstone] Fernando Sabino, who was born a man and died a boy
Fernando Sabino
They should demand that I seek the truth, not find it.
Denis Diderot