“The master is not the one who teaches; it's the one who suddenly learns.”
― Grande Sertao: Veredas
― Grande Sertao: Veredas
“O mais importante e bonito, do mundo, é isto: que as pessoas não estão sempre iguais, ainda não foram terminadas – mas que elas vão sempre mudando. (...) Natureza da gente não cabe em nenhuma certeza.”
― Grande Sertão: Veredas
― Grande Sertão: Veredas
“Television, my dear Daniel, is the Antichrist, and I can assure you that after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how to fart on their own. Humans will return to living in caves, to medieval savagery, and to the general state of imbecility that slugs overcame back in the Pleistocene era. Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say - it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“Memories are either the greatest poetry, when they are memories of a vital happiness, or a burning pain, when they touch dried wounds.
p. 479”
― Oblomov
p. 479”
― Oblomov
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