Floriano Martins

“Only God would adore his own death.”

“Something tells me that immortality is monstrous.”

“God is a book I can no longer read.”

“There is no way I can avoid thinking about the kind of world I belong to. The abuse of utopias disfigures everything.”

“There comes a time when all that remains for us to do is to surrender to the idiosyncrasies of our nature.”

“I walk through the streets as if I was burning in some eternal bonfire.”

“Madness plants mirrors in the desert. I find the means frightening.”

“Faces always talk too much. One line and all their plans are revealed.”

“A constant human error: to believe in an end to one's fantasies. Our daydreams are the measure of our unreachable truth. The secret of all things lies in the emptiness of the formula that guard them.”

“To duplicate meanings is to isolate the consciousness.”

“Ideals make reason inaccessible.”

“The challenge of creation reduces us to the inevitable. Our lives are full of tiny disasters.”

“We live in the hope that life will be different. Just a little more substance perhaps in the intrinsic frailty of the days. Such resignation frightens me. Between gunshots I get drunk. In secret, all knowledge becomes anxiety.”

“I protect myself by refusing to know myself.”

“The deeper I go into myself the more I realize that I am my own enemy.”