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Mieko Kawakami
“For no Reason?"
"For every reason". Rie emptied her sake cup. "Let's start with how she viewed my dad. He was your typical king of the hill. We couldn't say anything growing up. I was a kid, and a girl on top of that, so he never saw me as a real person. I never even heard the guy call my mother by name. It was always Hey you. We were constantly on red alert because my dad would beat the shit out of us or break things for no reason. Of course, outside the home, he was a pillar of the community. He ran the neighborhood council, and all that. My mom was my mom, always laughing it off, running the bath for him, cleaning up after him, feeding him. She looked after both of his parents all the way to the end, too. There was no inheritance, either. Yeah, my mom was free labor - free labor with a pussy.”
Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

Carlos Drummond de Andrade
“Trabalhas sem alegria para um mundo caduco,
onde as formas e as ações no encerram nenhum exemplo.
Praticas laboriosamente os gestos universais,
sentes calor e frio, falta de dinheiro, fome e desejo sexual.

Heróis enchem os parques da cidade em que te arrastas,
e preconizam a virtude, a renúncia, o sangue-frio, a concepção.
À noite, se neblina, abrem guarda-chuvas de bronze
ou se recolhem aos volumes de sinistras bibliotecas.

Amas a noite pelo poder de aniquilamento que encerra
e sabes que, dormindo, os problemas de dispensam de morrer.
Mas o terrível despertar prova a existência da Grande Máquina
e te repõe, pequenino, em face de indecifráveis palmeiras.

Caminhas entre mortos e com eles conversas
sobre coisas do tempo futuro e negócios do espírito.
A literatura estragou tuas melhores horas de amor.
Ao telefone perdeste muito, muitíssimo tempo de semear.

Coração orgulhoso, tens pressa de confessar tua derrota
e adiar para outro século a felicidade coletiva.
Aceitas a chuva, a guerra, o desemprego e a injusta distribuição
porque não podes, sozinho, dinamitar a ilha de Manhattan.”
Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Sentimento do Mundo

Vladimir Nabokov
“How would you say “delightful talk” in Russian?’
‘How would you say “good night”?’
Oh, that would be:
Bessónnitza, tvoy vzor oonýl i stráshen;
lubóv’ moyá, otstóopnika prostée.
(Insomnia, your stare is dull and ashen,
my love, forgive me this apostasy.)”
Vladimir Nabokov

Fernando Pessoa
“Quero dos deuses só que me não lembrem.

Serei livre — sem dita nem desdita,

Como o vento que é a vida

Do ar que não é nada

O ódio e o amor iguais nos buscam; ambos,

Cada um com seu modo nos oprimem.

A quem deuses concedem

Nada, tem liberdade”
Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa
“Estou hoje vencido, como se soubesse a verdade.

Estou hoje lúcido, como se estivesse para morrer,

E não tivesse mais irmandade com as coisas”
Fernando Pessoa

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