Matheus Silva

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Matheus is Currently Reading

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Quarto de Despejo: Diário de uma Favelada

by Carolina Maria de Jesus

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May 16, 2026 10:10AM

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Favor fechar os olhos: em busca de um outro tempo

by Byung-Chul Han

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Matheus’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for O mundo assombrado pelos demônios: A ciência vista como uma vela no escuro

O mundo assombrado pelos demônios: A ciência vista como uma vela no escuro by Carl Sagan

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Porém, tanta coisa na ciência verdadeira é igualmente emocionante, mais misteriosa, um estímulo intelectual muito maior — além de estar bem mais perto da verdade. Ele sabia dos tijolos moleculares da vida que existem lá fora, no gás frio e ...more

Tempos de Vargas: o rádio e o controle da informação (Portuguese Edition)

by Othon Jambeiro

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Matheus’s Quotes

“What of Art?
-It is a malady.
--Love?
-An Illusion.
--Religion?
-The fashionable substitute for Belief.
--You are a sceptic.
-Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
--What are you?
-To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde , The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading

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“To achieve a just society we have to reason together about the meaning of the good life, and to create a public culture hospitable to the disagreements that will inevitably arise.”
― Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

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“Markets are useful instruments for organizing productive activity. But unless we want to let the market rewrite the norms that govern social institutions, we need a public debate about the moral limits of markets.”
― Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

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“But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: dark, inspirational, macabre

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