59 Quotes by José Eduardo Agualusa

Eternity is not the inexhaustible sum of all the centuries, quite the contrary —it must surely be this absence of time. Absolute calm (which can be more than a little dull!).

We're only happy--truly happy--when it's forever after, but only children live in a world where things can last forever.

God invented music so poor people could be happy.

What life expects of us is that we celebrate.

The other day an entomologist friend of mine told me that for a beehive to produce a kilo of honey it must gather pollen from five million flowers. Thinking of this extraordinary effort I have been wondering how many books Baudelaire had to read, how many lives he had to live, to write a single line of poetry.

Write and tell me what you have decided. Condemn me to winter, or rescue me from it.YourFradique

I have understood over these last years that in order to believe in God, it is essential to have trust in humanity. There is no God without humanity. I continue not to believe, neither in God, nor in humanity.

I continue not to believe, neither in God, nor in humanity. Since Phantom died I have worshipped His spirit. I talk to Him. I believe He hears me. I believe this not through an effort of the imagination, still less intelligence, but by engaging another faculty entirely, which we might call unreason.

All stories are connected. In the end everything is connected.