José Eduardo Agualusa

“Sinceridade é quase amor.”

— José Eduardo Agualusa

“Quem se dirige a Deus é devoto, quem afirma ouvir a voz de Deus é maluco.”

— José Eduardo Agualusa

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

— José Eduardo Agualusa

“Somos todos estranhos uns em relação aos outros. Podemos usar as mesmas palavras mas não falamos a mesma língua.”

— José Eduardo Agualusa

“Imagine a young man racing along on his motorcycle, on a minor road. The wind is beating at his face. The young…

— José Eduardo Agualusa

“There are people who from early on reveal a great talent for misfortune. Unhappiness pummels at them like a stoning, every other…

— José Eduardo Agualusa

“Nunca saberemos se existe quem amamos. Mas sabemos que o amor existe.”

— José Eduardo Agualusa

“The same thing happens to the soul as happens to water – it flows. Today it’s a river. Tomorrow, it will be…

— José Eduardo Agualusa

“Happiness is almost always irresponsible.”

— José Eduardo Agualusa

“I have a lot of sympathy for impossible passions. I am -- or rather, I was -- a specialist in them.”

— José Eduardo Agualusa

“In olden days stories for children always used to end with the words, and they lived happily ever after, this being after…

— José Eduardo Agualusa

“Luanda is full of people who seem completely lucid but suddenly burst out speaking impossible languages, or crying for no apparent reason,…

— José Eduardo Agualusa

“Truth is superstition.”

— José Eduardo Agualusa

“Fui feliz com ela e suspeito que nunca a conheci. Teria sido feliz se realmente a tivesse conhecido?”

— José Eduardo Agualusa

“Sincerity is almost love.”

— José Eduardo Agualusa

“Some people are destined to dream (some, indeed, are paid rather well to do so); some are born to work, practical and…

— José Eduardo Agualusa