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-After shooting into a mirror”
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-After shooting into a mirror”
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“We must allow ourselves to think, we must dare to think, even though we fail. It is in the nature of things that we always fail, because we suddenly find it impossible to order our thoughts, because the process of thinking requires us to consider every thought there is, every possible thought. Fundamentally we have always failed, like all the others, whoever they were, even the greatest minds. At some point, they suddenly failed and their system collapsed, as is proved by their writings, which we admire because they venture farthest into failure. To think is to fail, I thought.”
― Extinction
― Extinction
“I studied mathematics which is the madness of reason.”
― Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector
― Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector
“Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.”
― Culture and Value
― Culture and Value
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