Sublime

“Every one of us is losing something precious to us,” he says after the phone stops ringing. “Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads – at least that’s where I imagine it – there’s a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks

Man has something in him always which is not conquered by conditions. Yes, there is a liberty that has never been chained. There is a liberty that has made men happy in dungeons, as it may make then happy in slums. It is the liberty of the mind,

everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any

To the Romantics what is of supreme reality and value in human nature is not reason but

everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

What freedom can exist in the fullest sense without assurance of eternity?

“a confiança é a pulsação do verdadeiro amor”.

to the wise alone that the power to love belongs.