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Nem sempre uma linda cara
Traduz encanto no mundo
Há mil fontes d'água clara
Cheias de lodo no fundo.


Joaquim de Barros Ferreira

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Nesse mundo moderno,
Os sãos são muito poucos.
E ainda que no inferno,
São chamado...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES RECUERDE LA FLOR DE LOTO


Las grandes personas siempre se burlaban de los que se sie...
SUZY KASSEM El que no sabe llevar su contabilidad
Por espacio de tres mil años
Se queda como un igno...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE —¿Nunca has parado el mundo?
—¿Qué es parar el mundo?
—Parar el mundo es decidir ...
ALBERT ESPINOSA Tanto os pastores como os marinheiros, ou os caixeiros-viajantes, sempre conheciam uma cidade onde h...
PAULO COELHO Quando brilhou a aurora, dissolveram-se
Entre a luz as florestas encantadas
Arvoredos azui...
SOPHIA DE MELLO BREYNER ANDRESEN Para que los pasos no me lloren,
para que las palabras no me sangren:
canto.

OTTO RENé CASTILLO Quizá para ti hay un
mañana. Quizá para ti hay mil mañanas, o tres mil, o diez mil, tanto t...
LAUREN OLIVER Percebi então, o crepúsculo,é apenas uma ilusão, porque o sol ou está acima ou abaixo do horizo...
NICHOLAS SPARKS é uma parvoíce sentir a falta de alguém com quem nem sequer nos dávamos bem. Mas, não sei, era ...
JOHN GREEN -Te echo de menos.
-Vaya tontería. Nos hemos visto esta mañana.
-No es cuestión de tiem...
RAINBOW ROWELL Por vezes, quando um homem não consegue encontrar respostas seja para onde quer que se volte, acaba...
CATHERINE ANDERSON No se me importa un pito que las mujeres
tengan los senos como magnolias o como pasas de higo;<...
OLIVERIO GIRONDO Y la belleza es una forma de genio más elevada, en verdad, que el genio; no tiene necesidad de expl...
OSCAR WILDE Ser moderno é tratar de sabotar os lugares-comuns de seu tempo. Programa complexo: o nosso tende a ...
OLIVIER ROLIN No te amo como si fueras rosa de sal, topacio
o flecha de claveles que propagan el fuego:
PABLO NERUDA ¿Y ella? —pregunté—. ¿Murió?
Tardó en responder. Tardó mucho.
— La perdí de ...
ALBERT ESPINOSA Há um morcego de papel da festa das bruxas pendurado num cordão acima de sua cabeça; ele levanta ...
KEN KESEY Sabrás que no te amo y que te amo
puesto que de dos modos es la vida,
la palabra es un al...
PABLO NERUDA Sempre quis saber o que aconteceu com as crianças depois que voaram para longe...
Eram apenas ...
NEIL GAIMAN Cuando vas por las calles
nadie te reconoce.
Nadie ve la corona de cristal, nadie mira
PABLO NERUDA Tucker: Is it okay to kiss you?

Clara: What?

Tucker: I won't get struck by lig...
CYNTHIA HAND na hora de pôr a mesa, éramos cinco:
o meu pai, a minha mãe, as minhas irmãs
e eu. dep...
JOSé LUíS PEIXOTO Así, la suerte de la mujer y la del socialismo están íntimamente ligadas, como se ve también
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR - Não sei se interprete as suas palavras como um galanteio, se não - replicou Scarlett, indecisa.<...
MARGARET MITCHELL Não se destrói o vencido nem o seu aparelho de produção: o vencedor prova que o sabe no fim de u...
FRANçOIS PERROUX Por outro lado, quando você se sentir tentado a não se incomodar com os problemas de alguém porqu...
C.S. LEWIS Estou sempre a fazer isto com as pessoas. Ponho-as de parte antes de as conhecer, ou acho que a simp...
JULIA GREGSON E aprendi oque é óbvio para uma criança. Que a vida é simplesmente uma coleção de pequenas vid...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Nuestro padre se asomó al antepecho.
- ¡Cuando te canses de estar ahí ya cambiarás de idea!...
ITALO CALVINO de eindigheid van de dingen
de willekeur--

het voortdurend breken
en lijmen van...
ANNA JAE Yo no tenía hermanos. Era hijo único. Y por eso sentí durante toda mi niñez algo
parecido a...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Sus Últimos Días


¿Va a vivir su último día,
De la misma manera como usted...
SUZY KASSEM Poesía Vertical 22

Inventar el regreso del mundo
después de su desaparición.
ROBERTO JUARROZ As tecnologias digitais criam o ambiente propício para uma nova forma de bricolagem, ou "colagem li...
LAWRENCE LESSIG Óscar
también opina que hacer el amor es la
mejor manera de empezar el día. Yo por
MILENA BUSQUETS - Soy feliz. Jamás me he sentido tan bien, ¿y tu?
- ¿Yo? - Step la abraza con fuerza-. Estoy...
FEDERICO MOCCIA Cosas detestables

Cuando uno tiene prisa por salir, llega alguien de visita y se queda ha...
SEI SHōNAGON He dormido contigo
y al despertar tu boca
salida de tu sueño
me dio el sabor de tier...
PABLO NERUDA Yo sé que tiene alas.
Que por las noches sueña
en alta voz la brisa
de plata de sus...
RAFAEL ALBERTI —Pero ¿cómo es posible alejarse de algo y regresar al mismo tiempo?
—Resulta fácil. Pien...
NEIL GAIMAN Y de repente es cómo si no existiera nadie más en el mundo que estas dos personas que atraviesan e...
SUZANNE COLLINS Otra vez tambores de guerra, y son siempre los mismos quienes los percuten. Decía Roger Garaudy que...
FERNANDO SáNCHEZ DRAGó Que el lodo sea mi heredero, quiero crecer del pasto que amo;
Si quieres encontrarte conmigo, ...
JOHN GREEN Te amo sin saber cómo, ni cuándo, ni de dónde,
te amo directamente sin problemas ni orgullo...
PABLO NERUDA - Estamos jugando a pedir tres deseos. Los míos son un pastel, un baño caliente y una cama mullida...
LAINI TAYLOR Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action.

(There is no reality except in action.)
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Não tenhas medo, ouve:
É um poema
Um misto de oração e de feitiço...
Sem qualque...
MIGUEL TORGA Há qualquer coisa de libertador associada à perda de tudo. Primeiro chora-se, depois fica-se atord...
JUDITH MERKLE RILEY yo te amo para comenzar a amarte,
para recomenzar el infinito
y para no dejar de amarte nu...
PABLO NERUDA —En París, es común reconocer a alguien atractivo. El francés no desvía la mirada como otras c...
STEPHANIE PERKINS – En la geometría no hay historias de amor.
– Espera y verás.
JOHN GREEN —Si yo bajara en busca de tu alma, ni todos los querubines negros juntos podrían apartarme de ti....
SYLVAIN REYNARD Leven met hoop
is ‘s avonds
opstappen
naar het oosten toe,
de nacht heel z...
WIM -No puedo seguir haciendo esto de ir hacia delante y hacia atrás contigo."
"-Y no puedo ayudar...
PRIYA ARDIS Toro: Hay gente que no sabe lo que es el amor.
Pescuezo: ¿Qué es el amor?
Toro: …….e...
DAVID COTOS -Si vas por ahí sonriendo a todo el mundo, ¿cómo se supone que debo sentirme cuando me sonríes a...
RAINBOW ROWELL Ya no la quiero, es cierto, pero cuánto la quise.
Mi voz buscaba el viento para tocar su oíd...
PABLO NERUDA -Me has dicho que no dura, que desear ser feliz nunca dura. Así que lo que me haría sentir complet...
JACKSON PEARCE Era só isso?" _ Sim, só isso.
Existe sabedoria na descoberta de que tudo é imperfeito e triv...
FABíOLA SIMõES Fue así que me enloquecí.

Y en mi locura he hallado libertad y seguridad; la libertad d...
KAHLIL GIBRAN ¿Qué más? Es preciosa. No te cansas de mirarla. No tienes que preocuparte de si es más inteligen...
JOHN GREEN - As wiccanfae não merecem estar entre nós...e Tir Alainn não é o lugar delas.
- Nesse ca...
ANNE BISHOP - El mundo - dijo -, no es una fábrica de conceder deseos.
JOHN GREEN —Qué va. —Hablaba en serio. Jess lo supo por su mirada—. Toda esa historia de Jesús es realm...
KATHERINE PATERSON —¿Nada de playa entonces?
Negué y respondí:
—La playa me pegó de pequeña
CARLOS J. EGUREN -"Me alegro de que hayas cedido. Me alegro de que tu autocontrol no sea tan fueste como el mio."
RICHELLE MEAD – Assim, nós – dizia ele –, por que nós nos conhecemos? Que acaso o quis? É que através da...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Yo te he nombrado reina.
Hay más altas que tú, más altas.
Hay más puras que tú, más ...
PABLO NERUDA De tanto amor mi vida se tiñó de violeta
y fui de rumbo en rumbo como las aves ciegas
ha...
PABLO NERUDA —¿Estàs bé? —va preguntar de sobte.
—Sí —va respondre el Harry.
—No, no és ...
J.K. ROWLING (...) compor meticulosamente o cadastro afetivo e o retrato fantástico-histórico de uma comunidade...
GESUALDO BUFALINO Yo te he nombrado reina.
Hay más altas que tú, más altas.
Hay más puras que tú, más ...
PABLO NERUDA Atualmente nós estamos no meio de outra "guerra" contra a "pirataria". A Internet provocou essa gue...
LAWRENCE LESSIG Durante tanto tempo adormecido, me acumulando no fundo do rio, neste leito de morte eu desperto do t...
FILIPE RUSSO Dans une vie de bohème
on peut faire de poème.
Comment serait la vie
sans la douce...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Eu te reclamo, te clamo, te amo:
― Caro jovem adulto, está na hora de abrires os olhos para ...
FILIPE RUSSO Wanderess, Wanderess,
emporte-nous dans un récit
de séduction et de ruse.
Héroï...
ROMAN PAYNE La ciudad se estremece
con sus ruidos terribles,
convulsiones
de risa,
estertore...
ISABEL DE LOS ÁNGELES RUANO Il nous faut de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace!"

(We must dare, an...
GEORGES JACQUES DANTON El remanso de aire
bajo la rama del eco.

El remanso del agua
bajo fronda de luc...
FEDERICO GARCíA LORCA Un minuto más tarde, Annabeth
puso el pie sobre un trozo de musgo y resbaló. Por suerte, con...
RICK RIORDAN La oscuridad no puede conducirte fuera de la oscuridad;
sólo la luz puede hacer eso.
El o...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Que yo sepa, lo único que no da resaca y
que disipa momentáneamente la muerte
—tambié...
MILENA BUSQUETS Sabes quais são as três coisas melhores que há no mundo? As três coisas melhores que há no mund...
JOSé CARDOSO PIRES Cependant, pour les pays les plus avancés, les mesures suivantes pourront assez généralement êtr...
KARL MARX Pensar es una incomprensible insistencia,
algo así como alargar el perfume de la rosa
...
ROBERTO JUARROZ Cel mai mult,
de pe Pământ
îmi place
CERUL.
VASILE HAUșI Dos amantes dichosos no tienen fin ni muerte,
nacen y mueren muchas veces mientras viven,
...
PABLO NERUDA Me prometiste que nunca me follarías, pero ¿qué fue lo de anoche? Ni una palabra, ni un «te quie...
SYLVAIN REYNARD Ariette III

Il pleure dans mon coeur
Comme il pleut sur la ville ;
Quell...
PAUL VERLAINE Pero solo tu voz escucho y sube
tu voz con vuelo y precisión de flecha,
baja tu voz con g...
PABLO NERUDA Aceitamos a designação de municipalista; aceitamo-la da boca da democracia.
Toca-nos provar ...
ALEXANDRE HERCULANO Así pues viviré, creceré y moriré,
Mi señor, antes que entregar mi virginidad
A un du...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE —Esa no es una zona erógena.
—¿De verás? —Inclinándose, Max cerró los dientes sobre ...
NALINI SINGH […]¿Podrías decirme, por favor, qué camino he de tomar para salir de aquí?
—Depende muc...
LEWIS CARROLL Tenho consciência de ser autêntica e procuro superar todos os dias minha própria personalidade, d...
CORA CORALINA Todo el mundo habla de lo que los demás dicen o no dicen.
JOHN GREEN De leur meilleur côté tâchons de voir les choses:
Vous vous plaignez de voir les rosiers ép...
ALPHONSE KARR Le mai le joli mai en barque sur le Rhin
Des dames regardaient du haut de la montagne
Vous...
GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE

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ALEXANDRE BARROS It's tough to come back in on that ledge when the ocean's flat. With today's 3-foot south swell and ...
JIMMY BARROS Basically the rear grip is the main problem for all the Honda riders. I think that the factory teams...
ALEX BARROS I'm very happy. The team did a very good job, I'm starting to understand how the machine works and I...
ALEX BARROS I know of cases where a person is hanging onto a fish to bring the animal closer, enticing it, to ge...
NELIO BARROS We kill time; time buries us
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JOSE FERREIRA Venture capitalists buy minority positions in young companies they think will grow quickly; buy-out ...
JOSE FERREIRA Many venture capitalists say they're looking for the next big idea. But they aren't, really;...
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DE DELLOY An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
DE CHATEAUBRIAND Peace is a natural effect of trade.
DE MONTESQUIEU If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
DE MONTESQUIEU Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
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DE FINOD We would prefer to see a more expedient transfer of properties and the backlog ? being cleared.
DE RAUVILLE Hope is the gay skylarking pajamas we wear over yesterday's bruises
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LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Clearness ornaments profound thoughts. [Fr., La clarte orne les pensees profondes.]
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LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it is a proof that it should be rejected.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Prosperity makes few friends.
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YVONNE DE CARLO I guess I lead a double life, and I must admit I'm happy with both.
YVONNE DE CARLO After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a prop...
YVONNE DE CARLO The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Co...
MARQUIS DE CONDORCET If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from ro...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to d...
SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN I've always been a geek, so I've always used the Internet, perhaps at first for autopromotio...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY When you grew up in France in the 1970s and 80s, the Vel' d'Hiv wasn't part of the histo...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY Sometimes I get to see a movie that's adapted from a book that I haven't heard about or that...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.
TATIANA DE ROSNAY I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are v...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY There are two of my favorite books, 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Gone With The Wind', tha...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY I'm used to promoting books, but a movie is a very different thing. You have to go to film festi...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY It's a complicated process being so bilingual. Sometimes it's a mere word or sentence that c...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.
ROBERT DE NIRO Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a...
INGE DE BRUIJN I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training ha...
INGE DE BRUIJN And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
INGE DE BRUIJN I love to smile.
INGE DE BRUIJN Ballyhoo is for your classic girl, who is fun and fearless. This is for the girl who is not afraid t...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT You're a smaller fish in the U.S. There's just so many more TV shows, and actors, and actres...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT I'm a big fan of people like Rachel Bilson and Kate Bosworth. I think they're so chic and ha...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT My dream evening is wearing my sweatpants, eating something delicious and watching TV with my boyfri...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT My style is quite clean, vintage, and almost French in a way.
INDIA DE BEAUFORT School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn't so fun. I...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT Every trend in my high school was terrible! I used to wear my hair in a tight bun and let two long p...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT I remember my first actor that I really, really fell in love with was Tom Hanks. I suppose when I wa...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER When I was younger, me and my brother got a video camera, and he used to direct and I used to act. W...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there'...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The less men think, the more they talk.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name o...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy ...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally de...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE 'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE My trade and art is to live.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwe...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and th...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happines...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which ...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
LUC DE CLAPIERS To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
LUC DE CLAPIERS When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The maxims of men reveal their characters.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Obscurity is the realm of error.
LUC DE CLAPIERS