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A elegância do ouriço (Portuguese Edition) by Muriel Barbery

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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

Mar morto

by Jorge Amado

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“Fortune favors the prepared mind.”
― Louis Pasteur

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“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

tags: astronomy, diligence, discoveries, disinformation, knowledge, lies, memory, misinformation, propoganda, research, science, time, truth

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“It is really this that makes death so hard — curiosity unsatisfied.”
― Beryl Markham, West with the Night

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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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