Weil die Wahrheit dessen, was man redet, das ist, was man tut, kann man das Reden auch lassen.
“What does TV’s institutionalization of hip irony have to do with U.S. fiction? Well, for one thing, American literary fiction tends to be about U.S. culture and the people who inhabit it. Culture-wise, shall I spend much of your time pointing out the degree to which televisual values influence the contemporary mood of jaded weltschmerz, self-mocking materialism, blank indifference, and the delusion that cynicism and naïveté are mutually exclusive?”
― A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
― A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
“would be an advance from a lower to a higher form, so as to disappear into it, making way for science, for the spirit of the age, and civilisation. And if the Church resists and is unwilling, some corner will be set apart for her in the State, and even that under control—and this will be so everywhere in all modern European countries. But Russian hopes and conceptions demand not that the Church should pass as from a lower into a higher type into the State, but, on the contrary, that the State should end by being worthy to become only the Church and nothing else. So be it! So be it!”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“Indifference is actually just the ’90s’ version of frugality for U.S. young people: wooed several gorgeous hours a day for nothing but our attention, we regard that attention as our chief commodity, our social capital, and we are loath to fritter it.”
― A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
― A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
“Lembre-se do que eu lhe disse: de que o mundo é apenas a parte visível de Deus. De que a Alquimia é trazer para o plano material a perfeição espiritual.”
― O Alquimista
― O Alquimista
“É isso que chamam de Amor — disse o rapaz, ao ver que o vento estava quase cedendo ao seu pedido. — Quando se ama é que se consegue ser qualquer coisa da Criação.”
― O Alquimista
― O Alquimista
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