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ninguém parece ter pensado no fato de que, se a existência é absurda, ser brilhantemente bem-sucedido tem tanto valor quanto fracassar. É apenas mais confortável. E mais: acho que a lucidez torna o sucesso amargo, ao passo que a ...more
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Shunryu Suzuki
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Thomas Mann
“I know I am talking nonsense, but I’d rather go rambling on, and partly expressing something I find it difficult to express, than to keep on transmitting faultless platitudes.”
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Seneca
“The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject... And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them... Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.”
Seneca, Natural Questions

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

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
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