"People who plan their life when they're 18 years old and say, "This is my life plan," would generally be surprised and maybe disappointed."

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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