Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.

The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.

I look at myself but I'm missing. I know myself: it’s not me.

Life is good, but Wine is better.

I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of my incapacity to really want to be great. Whenever I arrived at a certainty, I remembered that those with the greatest certainties are lunatics.

I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city.

Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.