“Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“She’s lost her links to her old world, but she has never felt close to the one she’s in now. She’s torn in different directions, at a loss.”
― Bye Bye Blondie
― Bye Bye Blondie
“are moments, like this, that change everything. What had seemed solid and unchanging crumbles in an instant and nothing will ever grow there again as it had before. She once more closed her mouth, her eyes, her nose, and swore she’d get out, get out without betraying herself, and above all without being cured. She felt, rather than”
― Bye Bye Blondie
― Bye Bye Blondie
“Michel Foucault tem uma obra fantástica, Vigiar e punir, na qual afirma que essa sociedade de mercado em que vivemos só considera o ser humano útil quando está produzindo. Com o avanço do capitalismo, foram criados os instrumentos de deixar viver e de fazer morrer: quando o indivíduo para de produzir, passa a ser uma despesa. Ou você produz as condições para se manter vivo ou produz as condições para morrer. O que conhecemos como Previdência, que existe em todos os países com economia de mercado, tem um custo. Os governos estão achando que, se morressem todas as pessoas que representam gastos, seria ótimo. Isso significa dizer: pode deixar morrer os que integram os grupos de risco. Não é ato falho de quem fala; a pessoa não é doida, é lúcida, sabe o que está falando.”
― O Amanhã Não Está à Venda
― O Amanhã Não Está à Venda
“Sleep felt productive. Something was getting sorted out. I knew in my heart—this was, perhaps, the only thing my heart knew back then—that when I'd slept enough, I'd be okay. I'd be renewed, reborn. I would be a whole new person, every one of my cells regenerated enough times that the old cells were just distant, foggy memories. My past life would be but a dream, and I could start over without regrets, bolstered by the bliss and serenity that I would have accumulated in my year of rest and relaxation.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
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