Top 38 Jose Eduardo Agualusa Quotes

#1. A man with a good story is practically a king.

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#2. Dreams Are Where It All Begins

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#3. Literature is the only chance for a true liar to attain any sort of social acceptance.

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#4. What life expects of us is that we celebrate.

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#5. A guava tree in bloom, for instance, lost in the pages of a good novel, can bring delight with its fictional perfume to any number of real rooms.

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#6. The night, like a well, was swallowing stars.

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#7. If he'd been able to he would have rolled out a rose-petal carpet at her feet. He would have liked to conduct an orchestra of birds to sing as rainbows appeared in the sky, one by one.

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#8. I know now-I think I probably already knew then- that all lives are exceptional.

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#9. If I still had the space, charcoal, and available walls,
I could compose a great work about forgetting:
a general theory of oblivion.

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#10. All stories are connected. In the end everything is connected.

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#11. We're only happy--truly happy--when it's forever after, but only children live in a world where things can last forever.

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#12. Courage isn't contagious; fear is, of course.

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#13. I save on food, on water, on fire and on adjetives.

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#14. If you were this fish, would you prefer me to be eating you with sadness or with delight?

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#15. When people look at clouds they do not see their real shape, which is no shape at all, or every shape, because they are constantly changing. They see whatever it is that their heart yearns for.

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#16. One of those characters who in Angola are often called 'lost frontiers', because by daylight they look white, and at twilight they are discovered in fact to be half mulatto - from which it might be concluded that sometimes you can understand people better further away form the light.

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#17. Sincerity is almost love.

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#18. Monsters, show me the monsters: these people out on the street.

My people.

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#19. Misery does ever so well in wealthy countries.

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#20. Nothing happened today. I slept.
While asleep I dreamed that I was sleeping.

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#21. I have understood over these last years that in order to believe in God, it is essential to have trust in humanity. There is no God without humanity.

I continue not to believe, neither in God, nor in humanity.

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#22. I've met a remarkable woman. Oh, my friend, I don't have the words to describe her
everything about her is Light.
I thought he was exaggerating. Where there is light, there are shadows too.

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#23. I lived for almost a century in the skin of a man, and I never managed to feel altogether human either.

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#24. I'm at peace, at last. I fear nothing. I yearn for nothing. I suppose you could call that happiness

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#25. Hope, he joked. Always the last to die.

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#26. Happiness is almost always irresponsible.

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#27. Nothing seems true that cannot also seem false.

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#28. Some people are destined to dream (some, indeed, are paid rather well to do so); some are born to work, practical and concrete and tireless; and there are others who are like a river, who flow effortlessly down from source to mouth, hardly straying from its bed.

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#29. I was happy with her and I suspect I never knew her.Would I have been truly happy if I had actually known her?

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#30. Her returned in the evening, drier, sharper, a man with a closer kinship with a thorn bush.

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#31. God weighs souls on a pair of scales. In one of the dishes is the soul, and in the other, the tears of those who weep for it. If nobody cries, the soul goes straight down to hell. If there are enough tears and they are sufficiently heartfelt, it rises up to heaven.

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#32. If, when we are asleep, we can dream of sleeping, can we then, when awake, awaken within a more lucid reality?

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#33. He reminds me of a guy I met many years ago. He died. A shame, as I'd have really liked to kill him again.

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#34. Sometimes they don't write what I mean, they just write what I say.

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#35. The days slide by as if they were liquid.

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#36. He was evil, and he didn't know it. He didn't know what evil was. That is to say, he was pure evil.

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#37. However, he began to walk stooped slightly to the left, as though he were being pushed, from within, by a violent gale.

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#38. Truth is superstition.

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