Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections. — Antonio Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
“E queria estar a treze mil quilómetros dali, a vigiar o sono da minha filha nos panos do seu berço, queria não ter nascido… — António Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
“- Quando cresceres compreendes confiante - Quando cresceres compreendes e os castanheiros toda a noite a discursarem acerca do modo como a terra nos… — António Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
“If, for example, you and I were anteaters, rather than two people sitting in the corner of a bar, I might feel more comfortable… — António Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
Whenever anyone declares having read a book of mine I am disappointed by the error. That’s because my books are not to be read… — Antonio Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over the world,… — Antonio Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
It's funny - my wife is more jealous of my books than of other women because I'm always working and thinking about my books. — Antonio Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
“A book is finished when it does not want me to work on it any longer...it reaches a point when it feels like it… — Antonio Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
I was very interested in the relationship between the man who speaks and the woman who listens. I was drawn to the idea that… — Antonio Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache and feel… — Antonio Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
Of all the doctors I have known, psychoanalysts, a congregation of lay priests with bible, rites, and the faithful, constitute the most sinister, the… — Antonio Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
“I thought, Hatred is vital to good health, and I thought, To find ourselves in harmony with the world is a lethal infection.” — António Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
“Depois do 25 de Abril, por exemplo, tornámo-nos todos democratas. Não nos tornámos democratas por acreditar-mos na democracia, por odiarmos a guerra colonial, a… — António Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
