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no cabeçalho, pintura de Paul Béliveau
"Unjust social arrangements are themselves a kind of extortion, even violence, and
consent to them does not bind."
John Rawls, A Theory of Justice
O general Antunes Calçada era o Comandante de Pessoal e pediu a passagem à reserva em protesto. Na sexta-feira, durante a apresentação de um livro, criticou as organizações "onde se é sabujo para cima e um cão para baixo".
(Observador)
Do you not see that nature is clamouring for two things only, a body free from pain, a mind released from worry and fear for the enjoyment of pleasurable sensations?
De Rerum Natura (The Nature of Things, or On the Nature of the Universe), by Lucretius.
"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."
-- John Lennon
Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
— Samuel Butler
“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch!”— Edgar Mitchell, Apollo Astronaut
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.
Hemingway in “A Letter from Cuba”
"The mark of a great mind is to say many things with few words.”, La Rochefoucauld
New year's eve; a great chance to do all the wrong things that feel so damn right.
- Sherihan Gamal
“ A writer is a world trapped in a person. ”
Victor Hugo
— Susan Winebrenner
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
I won’t glorify or romanticize heartbreak; for me it was a kind of death and I was forced to keep living. (Warsan Shire)
We’re always believing something, even if we think we’re not. And what we believe determines what we can see. - William James
So Penelope took the hand of Odysseus,
not to hold him back but to impress
this peace on his memory:
From this point on, the silence through which you move
is my voice pursuing you.
– Louise Glück
One of the risks of being quiet is that other people can fill your silence with their own interpretation: You’re bored. You’re depressed. You’re shy. You’re stuck up. You’re judgmental. When others can’t read us, they write their own story—not always one we choose or that’s true to who we are. — Sophia Dembling
“If you can’t annoy somebody with what you write, there’s little point in writing.” (Kingsley Amis )
Não há música sem matemática, mas a música não se reduz à matemática; do mesmo modo que uma grande pintura é mais do que as suas linhas geométricas, embora não exista sem elas. (Cornelius Castoriadis)
Higher education is increasingly expected to be a concentrated site for focused job training and career preparation; this comes with an attendant fantasy of a robust economy and ample employment opportunities. This is one kind of “hallucination,” to use Grebowicz’s term. (Christopher Schaberg )
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