“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.”
Source: Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 50.
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Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947Related quotes

Michel Henry, Incarnation. Une philosophie de la chair, éd. du Seuil, 2000, p. 373
Books on Religion and Christianity, Incarnation: A philosophy of Flesh (2000)
Original: (fr) Notre chair porte en elle le principe de sa manifestation, et cette manifestation n’est pas l’apparaître du monde. En son auto-impressionnalité pathétique, en sa chair même, donnée à soi en l’Archi-passibilité de la Vie absolue, elle révèle celle-ci qui la révèle à soi, elle est en son pathos l’Archi-révélation de la Vie, la Parousie de l’absolu. Au fond de sa Nuit, notre chair est Dieu.
“Tomorrow is waiting to reveal itself depending on the actions of just one day… TODAY!”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 124

2020s, I’ve Had a Year to Think About What’s Important (2020)

Source: Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It (1944), Ch. 3
“The moment is God's will. Life reveals itself only to the conscious.”
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
Context: The moment is God's will. Life reveals itself only to the conscious. The disharmony is in the robot mind's desire to control life to suit its individual interests - an impossibility; but you keep trying.

“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”
Nescire autem quid ante quam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. Quid enim est aetas hominis, nisi ea memoria rerum veterum cum superiorum aetate contexitur? ([http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/orator.shtml#120 120])
Variant translation: To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.
Chapter XXXIV, section 120
Orator Ad M. Brutum (46 BC)
Variant: Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

“Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.”
Oh! voilà l’amour vrai, sans chicanes: il est ou n’est pas; mais quand il est, il doit se produire dans son immensité.
Part I, ch. XV.
Letters of Two Brides (1841-1842)