Au milieu de l’hiver, j’apprenais enfin qu’il y avait en moi un été invincible.
—Albert Camus, L’été, «Retour à Tipasa» (1952)
Au milieu de l’hiver, j’apprenais enfin qu’il y avait en moi un été invincible.
—Albert Camus, L’été, «Retour à Tipasa» (1952)
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
—Jane Austen, carta para Cassandra Austen em 24 de Agosto de 1798
To sit alone without any electric light is curiously creative. I have my best ideas at dawn or at nightfall, but not if I switch on the lights – then I start thinking about projects, deadlines, demands, and the shadows and shapes of the house become objects, not suggestions, things that need to done, not a background to thought.
—Jeanette Winterson, The Guardian, 31 de Outubro de 2009
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
—T.S. Eliot
Uma antiga piada soviética refere um dissidente comunista que foi preso pela polícia por estar a distribuir panfletos na praça pública, que se revelaram estar em branco. Inquirido sobre o assunto o dissidente responde que não são necessárias palavras:
—Toda a gente sabe.
(Daí os manifestantes na China exibirem folhas em branco.)