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Livro do Desassossego e a obra em prosa: Obra Completa IV (Edição Definitiva) (Portuguese Edition)
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Viajar? Para viajar basta existir. Vou de dia para dia, como de estação para estação, no comboio do meu corpo, ou do meu destino, debruçado sobre as ruas e as praças, sobre os gestos e os rostos, sempre iguais e sempre diferentes, como,
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“I catch myself carefully scrutinizing the loved body (like the narrator watching Albertine asleep). To scrutinize means to search: I am searching the other's body, as if I wanted to see what was inside it, as if the mechanical cause of my desire were in the adverse body (I am like those children who take a clock apart in order to find out what time is). This operation is conducted in a cold and astonished fashion; I am calm, attentive, as if I were confronted by a strange insect of which I am suddenly no longer afraid. Certain parts of the body are particularly appropriate to this observation: eyelashes, nails, roots of the hair, the incomplete objects. It is obvious that I am then in the process of fetishizing a corpse. As is proved by the fact that if the body I am scrutinizing happens to emerge from its inertia, if it begins doing something, my desire changes; if for instance I see the other thinking, my desire ceases to be perverse, it again becomes imaginary, I return to an Image, to a Whole: once again, I love.”
― A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
― A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
“É que as nódoas de sangue quando caem no chão não têm forma geométrica. As agonias da paixão, do desespero e do ciúme ardente quando coam num sangue tropical não se derretem em alexandrinos, não se modulam nas falas banais dessa poesia de convenção que se chama-conveniências dramáticas.”
― Macário
― Macário
“já percebi que Vossa Excelência pensa como alguém que está atrasado um século nas ideias e mesmo assim vai comprar uns binóculos para ver mais para trás”
― O Torcicologologista, Excelência
― O Torcicologologista, Excelência
“Há homens que da simples contradita do adversário concluem pela incompetência dele.”
― Obras Completas de Machado de Assis VI: Crônica
― Obras Completas de Machado de Assis VI: Crônica
“The acceleration of contemporary life also plays a role in this lack of being. The society of laboring and achievement is not a free society. It generates new constraints. Ultimately, the dialectic of master and slave does not yield a society where everyone is free and capable of leisure, too. Rather, it leads to a society of work in which the master himself has become a laboring slave. In this society of compulsion, everyone carries a work camp inside. This labor camp is defined by the fact that one is simultaneously prisoner and guard, victim and perpetrator. One exploits oneself. It means that exploitation is possible even without domination.”
― The Burnout Society
― The Burnout Society
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