Floriano Martins Quotes

• I walk through the streets as if I was burning in some eternal bonfire.

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• To duplicate meanings is to isolate the consciousness.

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• The challenge of creation reduces us to the inevitable. Our lives are full of tiny disasters.

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• Ideals make reason inaccessible.

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• Faces always talk too much. One line and all their plans are revealed.

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• There is no way I can avoid thinking about the kind of world I belong to. The abuse of utopias disfigures everything.

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• Madness plants mirrors in the desert. I find the means frightening.

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• There comes a time when all that remains for us to do is to surrender to the idiosyncrasies of our nature.

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• I protect myself by refusing to know myself.

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• The deeper I go into myself the more I realize that I am my own enemy.

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• God is a book I can no longer read.

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• Only God would adore his own death.

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Floriano Martins (12)

Birth:	1957
Nationality:	Brazilian
Profession:	Artist, Editor, Essayist, Poet, Professor, Translator

About

Floriano Martins was born in Fortress, Ceará, Brazil. He is a Brazilian Poet, artist, essayist, translator, professor, and editor. He has published several books, including poetry, essays, translations and anthologies. He is a director, along with Cláudio Willer, the magazine needle and is editorial coordinator of the culture magazine Banda Hispanic. He has written several books including Invention of Brazil, Estudos de pele, Cenizas del sol, and O Começo Da Busca.

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Births

• 1933 - Akihito
• 1812 - Samuel Smiles
• 1949 - Adrian Belew
• 1979 - Summer Altice
• 1946 - Susan Lucci

Deaths

• 1972 - Abraham Joshua Heschel
• 2000 - Victor Borge
• 2007 - Oscar Emmanuel Peterson
• 1959 - Lord Halifax
• 1818 - Philip Francis