Mia Couto famous quotes

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Ideas, we all know, are not born in people's heads. They begin somewhere out there, loose wisps of smoke swirling directionless in their search for a befitting mind.
-- Mia Couto

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Love is a territory where orders can't be issued.
-- Mia Couto

#Love Is #Order #Territory
Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.
-- Mia Couto

#Cells #Stories #Atoms
He who seeks eternity should look at the sky, he who seeks the moment, should look at the cloud.
-- Mia Couto

#Sky #Clouds #Looks
I was eleven years old when I saw a woman for the first time, and I was seized by such sudden surprise that I burst into tears.
-- Mia Couto

#Years #Tears #Saws
Our official histories of our countries and societies are made of forgetfulness,
-- Mia Couto

#Country #Made #Forgetfulness

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.
The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.
There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.
Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
Attachment to the Divine leads to detachment from the mind. This leads to the realization that the nature of the Seer and the Divine are the same.
Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.
A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relaxâ€“and out here if there's anything wrong, you can see it coming with bags of time to do what's next. This is the place and the weather for peace, for the cultivation of a friendly mind.
Rogue Squadron doesnâ€™t run. Unless we really, really have to." "No, this will be Wraith Squadronâ€™s mission." "We donâ€™t mind running. Even when we donâ€™t have to.

Mia Couto famous quotes

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