What is it that we call loneliness. It can’t simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and not lonely, and you can be among people and yet be….

Sometimes, we are afraid of something because we're afraid of something else..

Life is not what we live; it is what we imagine we are living..

Our lives are rivers, gliding free to that unfathomed, boundless sea, the silent grave!.

So, the fear of death might be described as the fear of not being able to become whom one had planned to be..

It is not the pain and the wounds that are the worst. The worst is the humiliation..

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?.

We are stratified creatures, creatures full of abysses, with a soul of inconstant quicksilver, with a mind whose color and shape change as in a kalei….

It wasn't only that you didn't see him anymore, meet him anymore. You saw his absence and encountered it as something tangible. His not being there w….

'De nada,' replied Gregorius. The Portuguese couple sat down, the train went on. Gregorius was never to forget this scene. They were his first Portug….

In the years afterward, I fled whenever somebody began to understand me. That has subsided. But one thing remained: I don't want anybody to understan….

What did i know of your fantasies? Why do we know so little about the fantasies of our parents? What do we know of somebody if we know nothing of the….

Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us -- what happens with the rest?.

There were people who read and there were the others. Whether you were the a reader or a non-reader was soon apparent. There was no greater distincti….

AS SOMBRAS DA ALMA. THE SHADOWS OF THE SOUL. The stories others tell about you and the stories you tell about yourself: which come closer to the trut….

Loyalty... A will, a decision, a resolution of the soul..