"As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer."

Victor Hugo

Foto: Lisboa 2011

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Retrato de uma princesa desconhecida

Para que ela tivesse um pescoço tão fino 

Para que os seus pulsos tivessem um quebrar de caule

Para que os seus olhos fossem tão frontais e limpos

Para que a sua espinha fosse tão direita

E ela usasse a cabeça tão erguida

Com uma tão simples claridade sobre a testa

Foram necessárias sucessivas gerações de escravos

De corpo dobrado e grossas mãos pacientes

Servindo sucessiva gerações de príncipes 

Ainda um pouco toscos e grosseiros

Ávidos cruéis e fraudulentos

Foi um imenso desperdiçar de gente

Para que ela fosse aquela perfeição 

Solitária exilada sem destino

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andressen

Foto: Braga 2011

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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world."

Boris Pasternak

Foto: C., Vigo 2010

Diana F+ Edelweiss

"Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums."

Salvador Dali

Foto: Braga 2011

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"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life."

Oscar Wilde

Foto: MUDE, Lisboa 2011

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"(...)

Ó coisas todas modernas, -

Ó minhas contemporâneas, forma actual e próxima - 

Do sistema imediato do Universo.

(...)" 

Ode Triunfal, Álvaro de Campos

Foto: Lisboa 2011

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"A house is made of walls and beams, a home is built with love and dreams."

Someone

Foto: Lisboa 2011

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"Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them."

Oscar Wilde

Foto: Braga 2011

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"The essencial part of creativity is not being afraid to fail."

Ewin H. Land

Foto: Sean Riley and The Slowriders, Braga 2011

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"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads."

Henry David Thoreau

Foto: Somewhere, 2010

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

Caesar Augustus

Foto: Roma 2010

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"People who love only once in their lives are... shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom of their lack of imagination."

Oscar Wilde

Foto: Roma 2009

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"To be or not to be: that is the question."

William Shakespeare

Foto: Roma 2009

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"The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others."

Dag Hammarskjold 

Foto: Sevilha 2009

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"He who is brave is free."

Seneca

Foto: Mosteiro de Tibães, Braga 2011

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"Simplicity is the glory of expression."

Walt Whitman

Foto: Mosteiro de Tibães, Braga 2011

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"Mere colour unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways."

Oscar Wilde

Foto: Fuji Finepix Z

Braga 2011

"I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time."

Calvin & Hobbes

Foto: Regina e Borges, Braga 2011

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"Drink the wild air."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Foto: Orto Botânico, Roma 2010

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"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand."

Confucius

Foto: Piazza di Trevi, Roma 2009

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morreste-me.

Foto: Porto de Leixões, Matosinhos 2008

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"Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal."

Jean-Paul Sartre

Foto: Sagrada Família, Barcelona 2009

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"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."

C.S. Lewis

Foto: Fontana di Trevi, Roma 2010 

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"Instinct is untaught ability."

Alexander Bain

Foto: Braga 2011

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"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself."

Ethel Barrymore

Foto: Porto 2011
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"The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric."

Louis Pasteur

Foto: Cidade do Vaticano, 2010

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"All good things are wild, and free."

Henry David Thoreau

Foto: Espinho 2009

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"You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was."

Abraham Lincoln

Foto: Santo Tirso, 2010 

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Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality.

Albert Camus

Foto: Porto 2011

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"Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammer, the soul is the piano with the strings."

W. Kandinsky

Foto: Shakespeare & Co., Paris 2011

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