Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes – they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes.

In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making a contract with heaven is that intentions are valid currency.

Por que bonita, se coxa? Por que coxa, se bonita?

Tears are not arguments.

Let Pascal say that man is a thinking reed. He is wrong; man is a thinking erratum. Each period in life is a new edition that corrects the preceding one and that in turn will be corrected by the next, until publication of the definitive edition, which the publisher donates to the worms.

I considered the case and realized that if something can exist in opinion without existing in reality, or exist in reality without existing in opinion, the conclusion is that of the two parallel lives, only opinion is necessary – not reality, which is only a secondary consideration.

There is nothing worse than giving the longest of legs to the smallest of ideas.