Jurandir Araujo Quotes & Sayings

187. Is it a related form of aggrandizement, to inflate a heartbreak into a sort of allegory? Losing what one loves is simpler, more common, than that. More precise. One could leave it, too, as it is.
Yet how can I explain, that every time I put a pin in the balloon of it, the balloon seems to swell back up as soon as I turn away from it? — Maggie Nelson

Fear is a habit; I am not afraid. — Aung San Suu Kyi

Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt. — Claude Levi-Strauss

The essential doesn't change. — Samuel Beckett

I felt like I was seeing Shannon through a new lens, undistracted by Jennifer's nuclear glow. I could see how pretty she really was, how kind her eyes were. — Kenneth Oppel

The primary condition for being sincere is the same as for being humble: not to boast about it, and probably not even to be aware of it. — Henri Peyre

I feel a powerful lust for red salmon.
I agreed. — Hunter S. Thompson

Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God. — Margaret Of Valois

I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses. — Isaac Marion

If the Creator had said, "Let there be light" in Ankh-Morpork, he'd have got no further because of all the people saying "What colour? — Terry Pratchett

We all reach a point as young adults when we wonder what we should be doing with our lives - or, at the very least, which direction to point ourselves in. Beyond the means to get by, we need to think about what's most important to us. Not surprisingly, I discovered that for me the answer was family. — Saroo Brierley

life will play tricks all the time, and to give up during such a phase is effortless - — Santosh Nair

No one is too old for fairy tales. — Nick Lake

I ask the educational system, the parents, the church, and pillars of the community to help shape a new culture of honesty, patriotism, respect, discipline and service for young Filipinos. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo