"The art of love... is largely the art of persistence."

Albert Ellis

Foto: Coliseu, Roma 2009
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"Now that I'm over sixty, I'm veering toward respectability."

Shelley Winters



Foto: Galerias Alberto Sordi, Roma 2010
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"The end of history will be a very sad time. (...) In the post-historical period there will be neither art nor philosophy, just the perpetual caretaking of the museum of human history. I can feel in myself, and see in others arround me, a powerful nostalgia fot the time when history existed. (...) Perhaps this very prospect of centuries of boredom at the end of history will serve to get history started once again."

Francis Fukuyama

Foto: Roma 2010

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"A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail."

John Foster Dulles

Foto: Estação de S. Bento, Porto 2010
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Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.

 Unknown

Foto: Fontana di Trevi, Roma 2010.
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"Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain."

Douglas Horton

Foto: Roma 2010
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"All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else."

Buddha

Foto: Coliseu, Roma 2009

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"As cartas de amor, se há amor,
Têm de ser
Ridículas. "

Álvaro de Campos

Foto: Braga 2010

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“I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.”

Augustus Caesar

Foto: Fontana di Trevi, Roma 2010
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“Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.”

Stanley Horowitz

Foto: Piazza di Trevi, Roma 2009
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"Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble."

Roger Tory Peterson

Foto: Termini, Roma 2010

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"The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity."

Edmund Burke

Foto: Serralves Em Festa!, Porto 2010
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"O mundo acabou, como num instante em que se fechassem os olhos e não se visse sequer o que se vê com os olhos fechados. (...). O mundo acabou e nem o tempo prosseguiu. Os minutos não passavam porque não existiam, como não existiam os momentos ou os olhares. O infinito era o infinito de não ser nem infinito, nem nada. A morte não existia no meio de todas as coisas mortas. Não existiam os cadáveres. Tinha morrido a memória da morte. (...). O mundo acabou. E não ficou nada. Nem as certezas. Nem as sombras. Nem as cinzas. Nem os gestos. Nem as palavras. Nem o amor. Nem o lume. Nem o céu. Nem os caminhos. Nem o passado. Nem as ideias. Nem o fumo. O mundo acabou. E não ficou nada. Nenhum sorriso. Nenhum pensamento. Nenhuma esperança. Nenhum consolo. Nenhum olhar."

José Luís Peixoto

Foto: S. Pedro de Moel 2009

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"I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."

Henry David Thoreau

Foto: Roma 2010

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"Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing."

Aesop



Foto: Galeria Nacional de Arte Moderna, Roma 2009 
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“Beauty is not caused. It is.”

Emily Dickinson

Foto: C., Roma 2009

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“Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.”

Voltaire

Foto: Sevilha, 2009
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"All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination."

Barbara Grizzuti

Foto: Villa Borghese, Roma 2010

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“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”

Oscar Wilde

Foto: Galeria Nacional de Arte Moderna, Roma 2009
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"All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape."

A. C. Benson

Foto: Orto Botanico, Roma 2009

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"I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back."

Abraham Lincoln

Foto: Cidade do Vaticano 2010

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"The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.”

Tucídides



Foto:
Coliseu, Roma 2010
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"A cult following is a nice way of saying very few people like you."

Martin Mull

Foto: VigoTr4sforma, Vigo 2010

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"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."

 Anon

Foto: Roma, 2009

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"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul."

John Muir

Foto: Villa Borghese, Roma, 2010

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Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

Elie Wiesel

Foto: Monumento a Vittorio Emanuele II, Roma 2010

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“Sometimes when you're really lonely, you really feel alive and you feel like you know who you are.”

Amelia E. Barr

Foto: Braga, 2009

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“Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non performance can always be explained away.”

Harold S. Geneen

Foto: Serralves Em Festa!, Porto 2010
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"Difficulties exist to be surmounted”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Foto:

Roma 2010

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“Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

Foto: Coliseu, Roma 2010

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