Look Better

"Bad people start to look better in comparison with worse people."

William Shakespeare in King Lear

"My old grandmother always used to say, summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever."

"Men with comfortable seats were inclined to listen, Maester Aemon had once told him; standing men were mor inclined to shout."

"You could make a poultice out of mud to cool a fire. You could plant seeds in mud and grow a crop to feed your children. Mud would nourish you, where fire would only consume you, but fools and children and young girls would choose fire everytime."

"One day all men must die, but it serves no good to dwell on death. I prefer to take each day as it goes."

"The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish."

"Every battle is a gamble. The man who does nothing also takes a risk."


George R. R. Martin

A Reader Lives A Thousand Lives

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one. The singers of the forest had no books. No ink, no parchment, no written language. Instead they had the trees. And the weirwoods above all. When they died, they went into the wood, into leaf and limb and root, and the trees remembered. All their songs and spells, their histories and prayers, everything they knewabout his world. Maesters will tell you that the weirwoods are sacred to the old gods. The singers believe they are the old gods. When singers die they become part of that godhood."

George R. R. Martin

"Sabemos hoje que não há ilhas, e que são vãs as fronteiras. Sabemos que, num mundo em constante aceleração, quando o Atlântico se atravessa em menos de um dia ou Moscovo contacta com Washington em poucas horas, estamos obrigados à solidariedade ou à cumplicidade, segundo os casos. O pão fabricado na Europa vende-se em Buenos Aires, e as máquinas que trabalham na Sibéria foram fabricadas em Detroit. Hoje, a tragédia é coletiva. Sabemos pois todos, sem sombra de dúvida, que a nova ordem que buscamos não pode ser somente nacional, ou sequer continental, e muito menos ocidental ou oriental. Ela só pode ser universal."

Albert Camus

Hoje Deitei-me Ao Lado Da Minha Solidão

"Hoje deitei-me ao lado da minha solidão.
O seu corpo perfeito, linha a linha,
derramava-se no meu, e eu sentia
nele o pulsar do próprio coração.

Moreno, era a forma das pedras e das luas.
Dentro de mim alguma coisa ardia:
a brancura das palavras maduras
ou o medo de perder quem me perdia.

Hoje deitei-me ao lado da minha solidão
e longamente bebi os horizontes.
E longamente fiquei até sentir
o meu sangue jorrar nas próprias fontes."


Eugénio de Andrade

"What happened between us – at any rate as far as I go – is that you touched me, touched my life, that is, at the one point where I am still alive".

 

Henry Miller

"I don't like the love you have for your god: it is an assertion of your own will. I don't like the love you have for me: it is the same."


D.H. Lawrence