Arre, que tanta besta é muito pouca gente!Arre, que o Portugal que se vê é só isto!Deixem ver o Portugal que não deixam ver!

I always want to be the thing I feel kinship with...To feel everything in every way,To hold all opinions,To be sincere contradicting oneself every minute...

Tenho em mim todos os sonhos do mundo

Que grande vantagem o recordar intrasigentemente!Agora tenho pena de nunca mais ter visto a outra raparigaE tenho pena de nem sequer ter olhado para esta(...)Porque todas as recordações são a mesma recordação,Tudo o que foi é a mesma morte,Ontem, hoje, quem sabe se até amanhã?

in exceptional circumstances — exceptional in that all circumstances in life are exceptional, especially those which are nothing in themselves and come to be everything in their results.

Nothing: a landscape, a glass of wine, a little loveless love, and the vague sadness caused by our understanding nothing and having lost the little we're given.

the Great Vaccination — the vaccination against the stupidity of the intelligentsia.

He possesses the minimum sensibility necessary for his intelligence not to be merely mathematical, the minimum a human being needs so that it can be proven with a thermometer that he's not dead.

It’s stupid, but it’s human, and that’s how it is.

and the idea of nothingness — the most terrifying of all ideas, when thought of with feeling — has, in my dear master’s work and in my memories of him, something as high and luminous as sunlight upon snowy, unscalable peaks.