He who seeks eternity should look at the sky, he who seeks the moment, should look at the cloud.
Mia Couto
'One who desires immortality should contemplate the heavens, one who searches for the present should regard the cloud.'
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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
3.
Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.
Mia Couto
4.
Love is a territory where orders can't be issued.
Mia Couto
5.
Our official histories of our countries and societies are made of forgetfulness.
