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Porque — eles sabiam — não era a verdadeira noite, a noite da lua e das estrelas, da música e do amor, que chegara. Esta só chegava na sua hora, quando os sinos tocavam e um negro cantava ao violão, no cais, uma cantiga de saudade. A que ...more

A elegância do ouriço (Portuguese Edition)

by Muriel Barbery

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Carlos’s Quotes

“Fortune favors the prepared mind.”
― Louis Pasteur

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“A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

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“We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.”
― Archilochus

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“There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.”
― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

tags: castorp, clever, cleverness, kinds-of, stupid, stupidity

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“If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything, it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ”
― Shunryu Suzuki

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