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Ray Bradbury
“So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless. We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam. Even fireworks, for all their prettiness, come from the chemistry of the earth. Yet somehow we think we can grow, feeding on flowers and fireworks, without completing the cycle back to reality.”
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Machado de Assis
“E, enquanto uma chora, outra ri; é a lei do mundo, meu rico senhor; é a perfeição universal. Tudo chorando seria monótono, tudo rindo cansativo; mas uma boa distribuição de lágrimas e polcas, soluços e sarabandas, acaba por trazer à alma do mundo a variedade necessária, e faz-se o equilíbrio da vida.”
Machado de Assis, Quincas Borba

Ray Bradbury
“We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam.”
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Machado de Assis
“O mais difícil parece que era a união dos princípios monárquicos e dos princípios republicanos; puro
engano. Eu diria: 1.°, que jamais consentiria que nenhuma das duas formas de governo se sacrificasse por
mim; eu é que era por ambas; 2.°, que considerava tão necessária uma como outra, não dependendo tudo
senão dos termos, assim podíamos ter na monarquia a república coroada, enquanto que a república podia
ser a liberdade no trono, etc., etc.”
Machado de Assis

Margaret Atwood
“A story is like a letter. Dear You, I'll say. Just you, without a name. Attaching a name attaches you to the world of fact, which is riskier, more hazardous: who knows what the chances are out there, of survival, yours? I will say you, you, like an old love song. You can mean more than one.
You can mean thousands.
I'm not in any immediate danger, I'll say to you.
I'll pretend you can hear me.
But it's no good, because I know you can't.”
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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