“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
“Yes, talking to people makes me sleepy.”
Ibid.
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Sim, falar com gente dá-me vontade de dormir.
Speaking in 1997 during an interview with The Independent about her political affiliations in South Africa http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19970406/ai_n14117510
Other
“I think a good book is a good book forever.
I don't think they get less good because times change.”
“a good book
can make an almost
impossible
existence,
liveable
( from 'the luck of the word' )”
Source: Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories
“I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.”
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Ibid., p. 56
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Tenho neste momento tantos pensamentos fundamentais, tantas coisas verdadeiramente metafísicas para dizer, que me canso de repente, e decido não escrever mais, não pensar mais, mas deixar que a febre de dizer me dê sono, e eu faça festas, como a um gato, a tudo quanto poderia ter dito.
Source: The Big Sleep (1939), Chapter 32, Phillip Marlowe
