“The most aggressive and therefore the most dangerous words in the languages of the world are to be found in the assertion I AM.”
― Home Is Where We Start from
― Home Is Where We Start from
“Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“Dizemos aos confusos, Conhece-te a ti mesmo, como se conhecer-se a si mesmo não fosse a quinta e mais dificultosa operação das aritméticas humanas, dizemos aos abúlicos, Querer é poder, como se as realidades bestiais do mundo não se divertissem a inverter todos os dias a posição relativa dos verbos, dizemos aos indecisos, Começar pelo princípio, como se esse princípio fosse a ponta sempre visível de um fio mal enrolado que bastasse puxar e ir puxando até chegarmos à outra ponta, a do fim, e como se, entre a primeira e a segunda, tivéssemos tido nas mãos uma linha lisa e contínua em que não havia sido preciso desfazer nós nem desenredar estrangulamentos, coisa impossível de acontecer na vida dos novelos e, se uma outra frase de efeito é permitida, nos novelos da vida.”
― The Cave
― The Cave
“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!”
― The First Part Of Goethe's Faust
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!”
― The First Part Of Goethe's Faust
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