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“A imagem imposta do bem, no seu espetáculo, recolhe a totalidade do que existe oficialmente e concentra-se normalmente num único homem, que é a garantia da sua coesão totalitária. Com esta vedete absoluta, deve cada um identificar-se magicamente, ou desaparecer. Pois se trata do senhor do seu não-consumo, e da imagem heróica de um sentido aceitável para a exploração absoluta, que é na realidade a acumulação primitiva acelerada pelo terror. Se cada chinês deve aprender Mao, e assim ser Mao, é que ele não tem mais nada para ser. Lá onde domina o espetacular concentrado domina também a polícia.”
― The Society of the Spectacle
― The Society of the Spectacle
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why”
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“Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, working and sleeping, and going here and there to be entertained. They don’t know what or why they are seeking, nor why they never realize complete happiness and lasting satisfaction. By evading self-analysis, people go on being robots, conditioned by their environment. True self-analysis is the greatest art of progress.”
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“They fear their higher self, because when it speaks, it speaks demandingly.”
― Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
― Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“Let the youthful soul look back on life with the question: what have you truly loved up to now, what has elevated your soul, what has mastered it and at the same time delighted it? Place these venerated objects before you in a row, and perhaps they will yield for you, through their nature and their sequence, a law, the fundamental law of your true self. Compare these objects, see how one complements, expands, surpasses, transfigures another, how they form a stepladder upon which you have climbed up to yourself as you are now; for your true nature lies, not hidden deep within you, but immeasurably high above you, or at least above that which you normally take to be yourself.”
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Leonardo’s 2025 Year in Books
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Classics, Comics, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic novels, Horror, Manga, Mystery, Paranormal, Psychology, Science, Science fiction, Suspense, and Thriller
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