...

 
Fingir, é como ajoelhar e deitar a cabeça no cepo. 

A roller-coaster ride

 

My life was a strange one that summer, the last summer of its kind there was ever to be. I was riding high on sex and self-esteem - it was my time, my belle époque - but all the while with a faint flicker of calamity, like flames around a photograph, something seen out of the corner of the eye.

Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming Pool Library, 1988

What lips my lips have kissed'

I only know that summer sang in me

A little while, that in me sings no more.

Actualidade. Trump, Alma Mater

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing. 

Chanakya Niti

Ci sono notti che non accadono mai

Combater a insónia reclama um herói deitado. 

Gavetas Cheias de Coisa Nenhuma (nunca estive tão perto de voltar a fumar)

I feel a despair
in the thought

of you —

above...
and beyond...
repair!

And still I polish the floor
where your shadow
used to lie,

then fold myself
into the small hours —
each one a drawer
with nothing left
to keep.

Trocar o coração por um fígado. Beber mais, sofrer menos

 

...

Et toi mon coeur pourquoi bats-tu

Comme un guetteur melancolique

J’observe la nuit et la mort.

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Ligadura velha não remedeia males novos (dos Novos Provérbios)

 
Ninguém deve usar o mesmo curativo, a vida toda, apenas porque algum dia fez bem.