Quote #153

I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.

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  2. To travel? In order to travel it's enough to be. [...] Why travel? In Madrid, in Berlin, in Persia, in China, at the Poles both, where woul…
  3. And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.
  4. I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city.
  5. That's not my love; that's just your life.
  6. Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the in…
  7. I exempt you of being present in my idea of you.
  8. In any spirit that isn't deformed there is the belief in God. In any spirit that is not deformed there isn't the belief in a particular God.

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