Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Mia Couto

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Last updated on April 14, 2025.

António Emílio Leite Couto, better known as Mia Couto, is a Mozambican writer. He won the Camões Prize in 2013, the most important literary award in the Portuguese language, and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2014.

Writer | Born: July 5, 1955

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I was eleven years old when I saw a woman for the first time, and I was seized by such sudden surprise that I burst into tears.

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He who seeks eternity should look at the sky, he who seeks the moment, should look at 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.

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Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.

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Love is a territory where orders can't be issued.

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Our official histories of our countries and societies are made of forgetfulness.

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