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“Chorar o leite derramado não é tão inútil quanto se diz, é de alguma maneira instrutivo porque nos mostra a verdadeira dimensão da frivolidade de certos procedimentos humanos, porquanto se o leite se derramou, derramado está e só há que limpá-lo (...)”
― Caim
― Caim
“A great library is anything and everything. It is not for its current custodians to judge what the future will find to be of importance, and it is this eclecticism that gives it the mystique, that is the wonder of it.”
― Ammonites And Leaping Fish: A Life In Time
― Ammonites And Leaping Fish: A Life In Time
“Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes. This goes on and on. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective.”
― Letters of Note: Volume 1: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience
― Letters of Note: Volume 1: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience
“I came up with a handful of rules: write a delight every day for a year; begin and end on my birthday, August 1; draft them quickly; and write them by hand. The rules made it a discipline for me. A practice. Spend time thinking and writing about delight every day.”
― The Book of Delights: Essays
― The Book of Delights: Essays
“It didn’t take me long to learn that the discipline or practice of writing these essays occasioned a kind of delight radar. Or maybe it was more like the development of a delight muscle. Something that implies that the more you study delight, the more delight there is to study.”
― The Book of Delights: Essays
― The Book of Delights: Essays
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