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“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.”

“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”

“When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.”

“If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.”

“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”

“Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
A amizade consigo mesmo é crucial, porque sem ela não se pode ser amigo de ninguém mais no mundo.

“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”
Todos devemos começar a viver antes de envelhecermos. O medo é estúpido. Da mesma forma os arrependimentos.

“Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.”
Onde todos pensam do mesmo jeito, ninguém pensa muito.

“Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful -- just stupid.)”

“"Classic." A book which people praise and don't read.”
Um clássico é um livro que as pessoas admiram e não lêem.

“The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.”
O único homem que nunca comete erros é aquele que nunca faz coisa alguma.

“I'm not anti-social. I'm just not social.”

“I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.”
Eu aceito o caos, não tenho certeza se me aceita.

“I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.”
Lembro-me de despertar uma manhã e encontrar tudo manchado com a cor do amor esquecido.

“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
A vida não é encontrar a si mesmo. A vida é criar a si mesmo.

“Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.”

“If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there.”

“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”

“I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.”
Tenho tanta autoridade quanto o Papa, só não tenho tantas pessoas que acreditem nela.

“Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
A educação é uma coisa admirável, mas é bom recordar que nada do que vale a pena saber pode ser ensinado.

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”

“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”
Eu não sou um produto das minhas circunstâncias. Eu sou um produto das minhas decisões.

“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.”
Somos o que nossos pensamentos fizeram de nós; portanto tome cuidado com o que você pensa. As palavras são secundárias. Os pensamentos vivem; eles viajam longe.

“What I've started I must finish. I've gone too far to turn back. Regardless of what may happen, I have to go forward.”

“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”

“I'd trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.”

“Anything that just costs money is cheap.”
Qualquer coisa que custa apenas dinheiro é barata.

“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”

“One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized, cruelly mocked, but it an never be taken away unless it is surrendered.”

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
Tudo no mundo é sobre sexo, exceto sexo. Sexo é sobre poder.

“She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.”

“Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.”

“Four legs good, two legs bad.”
Quatro patas bom, duas patas ruim.

“When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.”

“Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”
É melhor reinar no inferno do que servir no céu.

“No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.”
Nenhum homem é bom o suficiente para governar qualquer mulher sem o seu consentimento.

“We are our choices.”

“In the mountains of truth you will never climb in vain: either you will get up higher today or you will exercise your strength so as to be able to get up higher tomorrow.”

“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”

“Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.”

“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”
O amor é como uma amizade que pegou fogo. No começo uma chama, muito bonita, frequentemente quente e forte, mas ainda apenas leve e bruxuleante. À medida que o amor envelhece, nossos corações amadurecem e nosso amor se torna como carvão, ardente e inextinguível

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
Se você quer manter um segredo, você também deve escondê-lo de si mesmo.

“It takes a very long time to become young.”

“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one… just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”

“Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.”

“Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.”

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”

“Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.”

“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”
Adoro interpretar. É tão mais real que a vida.

“No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.”

“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
Não quero ficar à mercê das minhas emoções. Eu quero usá-las, apreciá-las e dominá-las.

“Do not look for my heart any more; the beasts have eaten it.”

“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. --Bernard, The Waves”

“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”

“No person has the right to rain on your dreams.”

“[Speaking of computers] But they are useless. They can only give you answers.”

“Youth is wasted on the young.”
A juventude é uma coisa maravilhosa. Que pena desperdiçá-la em jovens.

“I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe.”

“We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.”

“You speak an infinite deal of nothing.”

“You are unhappy because you believe in such a thing as happy.”

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”
A leitura de todos os bons livros é qual uma conversação com as pessoas mais qualificadas dos séculos passados.

“Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.”

“The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.”

“Love is the flower you've got to let grow.”

“To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.”
Para libertar-nos das expectativas dos outros, devolver-nos a nós mesmos - aí está o grande e singular poder do respeito próprio.

“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”

“Wherever there is an enforced orthodoxy — or even two orthodoxies, as often happens — good writing stops.”

“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
O público é maravilhosamente tolerante. Perdoa tudo, menos o gênio.

“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”

“Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts”

“To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.”

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
Seja sempre um poeta, mesmo na prosa.

“All I want, is for you to love me. Not because of what I can do or what I look like, or because I love you - just because I am.”

“A house is not a home until it has a dog.”

“To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.”

“Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.”

“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
E agora que você não precisa ser perfeito, você pode ser bom.

“There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.”
Há um mundo de diferença entre verdade e fatos. Fatos podem obscurecer a verdade.

“One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.”

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.”

“The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.”

“There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint.”

“As the thing more perfect is,
The more it feels of pleasure and of pain.”

“Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.”

“No one is able to rule unless he is also able to be ruled.”
nemo autem regere potest nisi qui et regi.

“The world is full of wonderful things you haven’t seen yet. Don’t ever give up on the chance of seeing them.”

“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”

“People will challenge you, question you, try to get you off track. Don't listen to the temptation to act out of character.”
As pessoas irão desafiá-lo, questioná-lo, tentar tirá-lo do caminho. Não dê ouvidos à tentação de não agir como a si mesmo.