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Naturalmente, relembrando-os hoje, eles podem de fato assumir o aspecto de momentos cruciais e preciosos na nossa vida; mas, a seu tempo, claro, não foi essa a impressão que causaram. Era mais como se se tivesse à disposição um número ...more
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Timothy Snyder
“When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring more meaning.”
Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

Robert A. Caro
“If you can’t come into a room and tell right away who is for you and who is against you, you have no business in politics.”
Robert A. Caro, The Path to Power

Fyodor Dostoevsky
“You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Netochka Nezvanova

Arthur Schopenhauer
“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

D.H. Lawrence
“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

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