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Mia Couto

Award-winning Mozambican writer Mia Couto is a master at blending the Portuguese language with animist realism, narrating the identity, war, and soul of Mozambique with unique lyricism.

Frases de Mia Couto

  • “War is a snake that uses our own teeth to bite us.”
    Reflexão Social
  • “What we lack is not time, but soul. Time is a river without banks; it is we who are narrow.”
    Filosófico
  • “Cooking is a way of loving others; it is a way of giving one's body so that others may feed their souls.”
    Afetivo
  • “God is a place where we do not go, but from which we have never left.”
    Fé e Espiritualidade
  • “Freedom is the possibility of isolation. If it is impossible for you to live alone, you were born a slave.”
    Reflexão existencial
  • “Dreams are the only thing that cannot be divided, because they are the only thing that multiplies us.”
    Inspiracional
  • “Sometimes it takes a desert to remind us that the sea exists.”
    Sabedoria
  • “Happiness is a path created without ground, a flight invented without wings.”
    Poético
  • “Friendship is a place where we take off our shoes to enter the soul of another.”
    Afetivo
  • “Writing is a way of not letting things die for good.”
    Filosofia da Arte

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