
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Walden, Chapter II
Walden
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Walden, Chapter II
Walden
There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another's soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Chapter 11
“Eu a desejava como se desejam todas as coisas perdidas para sempre.”
A insustentável Leveza do Ser
A Insustentável Leveza do Ser
“Meu fado é de não entender quase tudo. Sobre o nada eu tenho profundidades.”
"Doidas e Santas", Martha Medeiros, L&PM Editores - 2008
“É no nosso encontro, cara a cara, olho a olho, que as coisas vão se definir.”