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A biblioteca dos sonhos secretos: Uma história sobre a magia dos livros e seu poder de conectar pessoas

by Michiko Aoyama

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“In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence”
― Bei Dao

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“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: books, fiction, literature, reading, words

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“Oh, more people than not have some magic, they just forget about it. Children use it all the time - what do you think jump rope rhymes are, or bouncing ball games, or cat's cradles? Where do you think that girl, Aiffe, draws her power? Because she refuses to forget, that's all it is.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Folk of the Air

tags: magic

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“Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.”
― Carlos Fuentes

tags: carlos, fuentes, genre, writing

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“I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to accomplish in this world except to wait for death. Searching for the word in darkness. Any little success invades me and puts me in full view of everyone. I long to wallow in the mud. I can scarcely control my need for self-abasement, my craving for licentiousness and debauchery. Sin tempts me, forbidden pleasures lure me. I want to be both pig and hen, then kill them and drink their blood.”
― Clarice Lispector

tags: death, literature

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