Felipe Franco

“(...) apenas uma máquina de pensar, um contraste para obrigar a pensar, uma forma de quebrar a ilusão das falsas utopias que nos oferece o desenvolvimento progressista. Assim, minha utopia é, na realidade, uma anti-utopia. Meu projeto utópico é para ser realizado aqui e agora” (RIBEIRO, 2007, p.127).”
― Felipe Salto, Reconstrução: o Brasil nos anos 20

“I dreamed I saw my maternal grandmother sitting by the bank of a swimming pool, that was also a river. In real life, she had been a victim of Alzheimer’s disease, and had regressed, before her death, to a semi-conscious state. In the dream, as well, she had lost her capacity for self-control. Her genital region was exposed, dimly; it had the appearance of a thick mat of hair. She was stroking herself, absent-mindedly. She walked over to me, with a handful of pubic hair, compacted into something resembling a large artist’s paint-brush. She pushed this at my face. I raised my arm, several times, to deflect her hand; finally, unwilling to hurt her, or interfere with her any farther, I let her have her way. She stroked my face with the brush, gently, and said, like a child, “isn’t it soft?” I looked at her ruined face and said, “yes, Grandma, it’s soft.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

“I'm not afraid of God. I'm afraid of man.”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

“To be a good writer of journal articles, you must read journal articles.”
― Wendy Laura Belcher, Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks: A Guide to Academic Publishing Success