The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.

The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.

Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it.

Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial.

Ser compreendido é prostituir-se.

Nobody appropriates novelties as readily as the Portuguese.

There is a time when it is necessary to abandon the used clothes, which already have the shape of our body and to forget our paths, which takes us always to the same places. This is the time to cross the river: and if we don't dare to do it, we will have stayed, forever beneath ourselves