Top 10 Quotes by Antonio Lobo Antunes

There are 3 or 4 important things in life: Books, Friends, Women…and Messi

There are 3 or 4 important things in life: Books, Friends, Women…and Messi

Book, Things In Life, Important

I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over the world, so the idea of patriotism is not very strong in me. My country is the country of Chekhov, Beethoven, Velasquez - writers I like, painters and artists I admire.

Antonio Lobo Antunes

Country, Strong, Artist

A long time ago, I read in a book that a woman's homeland is wherever she fell in love.

Antonio Lobo Antunes

Book, Long, Homeland

I was very interested in the relationship between the man who speaks and the woman who listens. I was drawn to the idea that the relationship between a man and a woman can be something like a war itself, very cruel and violent.

Antonio Lobo Antunes

War, Men, Ideas

I'm just giving you some spiel, the ludicrous plot of a novel, a story I invented to touch your heart—one-third bullshit, one-third booze, and one-third genuine tenderness, you know the kind of thing.

Antonio Lobo Antunes

Heart, Giving, Bullshit

Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache and feel heavy, my skin has become more sensitive to cold and to heat, to the hardness or rigidity of things. Nothing interests me, I feel uncomfortable being still but would feel even more uncomfortable if I moved. I don't know whether speaking is painful or just boring. I sit here, staring straight ahead, with no desires, no needs, hollow. I'm not even sad. I feel only passivity and indifference.

Antonio Lobo Antunes

Desire, Skins, Apathy

Of all the doctors I have known, psychoanalysts, a congregation of lay priests with bible, rites, and the faithful, constitute the most sinister, the most ridiculous, the most unwholesome of the species.

Antonio Lobo Antunes

Doctors, Faithful, Ridiculous

"Knowledge of Hell". Book by Antonio Lobo Antunes, 2008.

Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections.

Antonio Lobo Antunes

Garden, Asylums, Cabbage

"Knowledge of Hell (2008)". Book by Antonio Lobo Antunes, 2008.

Whenever anyone declares having read a book of mine I am disappointed by the error. That’s because my books are not to be read in the sense usually called reading: the only way it seems to me to approach the novels that I write is to catch them in the same manner that one catches an illness.

Antonio Lobo Antunes

Book, Reading, Writing