30 phrases by Lygia Fagundes Telles that recall the writer’s works

Loneliness is disgusting.

I don’t think it’s wonderful to grow old. We age hard, because there’s really no other way, I’ve been to so many water stations, I’ve drunk from so many fountains – where is the Fountain of Youth, where?

Much more important than being loved is loving, you hear me? It’s what sets us apart from this paperweight that you’ll please leave on the table before it breaks, yes?

Read me while I’m hot.

Beauty is neither in the morning light nor in the shadow of the night. It’s in the twilight, in that mid-tone, in that uncertainty.

I wrote that my whole life converged on him and that it was only him that would radiate from this day forward.

Women want the freedom to follow their vocation.

I want to tell you that we human creatures live a lot (or stop living) due to the imaginations generated by our fear.

Knowing how to interpret what he reads, the student organizes his ideas and produces a good text. The rest is talk, false theory.

I have a vocation for joy, but it is an unfulfilled vocation.

With their undisciplined discipline, lovers are different beings and being different is excluded because it becomes a challenge, a threat.

If love in its absolute self-giving makes them more fragile, at the same time it protects them like an armor.

If it is true that all art is a quest, in this quest lies our salvation.

There are no completely good people or completely bad people, everything is mixed up and separation is impossible.

I wanted so much to go around making people happy, look, don’t be sad, hold my hand and come with me and I’ll show you the garden of joy with God inside, come!

We will not cut the wrists, on the contrary, we will sew all open wounds with a double thread.

I tried to be modern, but it didn’t work. The relationship I have with my typewriter is sensual.

Loneliness was star loneliness… But if it’s hard to carry loneliness, it’s even harder to carry a company. The company resists, the company has an iron health! Everything can end up around and the company remains firm.

I want to be alone. I like people a lot, but sometimes I have this voracious need to free myself from everyone.

I didn’t know yet that she would remain infinite in the memory of my finitude.

I approach people like a thief approaching a safe, my fingers filed, sharp, to grope for the secret.

Since it is necessary to accept life, let it be courageously.

Evil is in the human race itself, nobody is good. Sometimes we get better.

The boy then smiles and not even the fiercest enemy will resist that smile of one who offers himself so defenselessly.

I wanted so much that people were all happier, it feels so good to be happy.

A better solution is not to go mad any more than we have already gone mad, not so much by virtue as by calculation.

I get rich in solitude: I become intelligent, graceful and not this resentful ugly looking at me from the depths of the mirror.

The truth, my dear, is that life, the world always bends to our decisions.

So difficult life and your craft. And no one by the side to receive the totality of human beings, this in the last years of his life without much illusion…