“O maior pecado, depois do pecado, é a publicação do pecado.”
― Machado de Assis, quote from Quincas Borba
“Ouça-me este conselho: em política, não se perdoa nem se esquece nada.”
― Machado de Assis, quote from Quincas Borba
“(...) era tão diversa de si mesma, ora isto, ora aquilo, que os dias iam passando sem acordo fixo, nem desengano perpétuo.”
― Machado de Assis, quote from Quincas Borba
“As estrelas são ainda menos lindas que os seus olhos, e afinal nem sei mesmo o que elas sejam; Deus, que as pôs tão alto, é porque não poderão ser vistas de perto, sem perder muito da formosura... Mas os seus olhos, não; estão aqui, ao pé de mim, grandes, luminosos, mais luminosos que o céu...”
― Machado de Assis, quote from Quincas Borba
Machado de Assis
Born place: in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Born date June 21, 1839
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“Gilbert: How Clark Gable turn every women's head so? Foolish young English girls would see a movie star in every GI with the same Yankee-doodle voice. Glamour in US privates named Jed, Buck or Chip, with their easy-come-by-gifts and Uncle Sam sweet-talk. Dreamboats in hooligans from Delaware or Arizona with fingernails that still carried soil from home, and eyes that crossed with any attempt at reading. Heart-throbs from men like those in the tea-shop, who dated their very close relatives and knew cattle as their mental equal.”
― Andrea Levy, quote from Small Island
“If you initialed one dollar per second, you would make $1,000 every seventeen minutes. After 12 days of nonstop effort you would acquire your first $1 million. Thus, it would take you 120 days to accumulate $10 million and 1,200 days— something over three years—to reach $100 million. After 31.7 years you would become a billionaire, and after almost a thousand years you would be as wealthy as Bill Gates. But not until after 31,709.8 years would you count your trillionth dollar (and even then you would be less than one-fourth of the way through the pile of money representing America’s national debt). That is what $1 trillion is.”
― Bill Bryson, quote from I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away
“Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, quote from Red Mars
“التحرر من" ليس متطابقا مع الحرية الايجابية, "الحرية لـ " ان بزوغ الانسان من الطبيعة هو عملية طويلة مستخلصة, انه الى حد كبير يظل مقيدا بالعالم الذي منه ظهر, انه يظل جزءا من الطبيعة - التربة التي يعيش عليها, الشمس والقمر والنجوم, الشجر والازهار, الحيوانات, ومجموع الناس الذين يرتبط معهم بروابط الدم.
والادباء البدائية شاهد على شعور الانسان بتوحده مع الطبيعة. فالطبيعة الحية وغير الحية جزء من عالمه الانساني, او كما يمكن للانسان ان يضع الامر, انه لا يزال جزءا من العالم الطبيعي.
هذه الروابط الاولية تسد الطريق امام تطوره الانساني الكامل, انها تقف في طريق تطوير عقله وقدراته النقدية, انها لا تدعه يعرف نفسه والآخرين الا من خلال وسيط مشاركته او مشاركتهم في قبيلة او جماعة اجتماعية او دينية لا كبشر, بقول آخر, انها تقف عقبة في طريق تطوره كفرد حر محدد لذاته منتج. ولكن بالرغم من هذا الجانب, هناك جانب آخر. هذا التوحد مع الطبيعة والقبيلة والدين يعطي الفرد امانا. انه يمت الى, انه مغروس في كل مبنى يكون فيه مكان لا جدال فيه. انه قد يعاني من الجوع او القهر, لكنه لا يعاني من اسوأ الآلام, الوحدة الكاملة والشك الكامل.”
― Erich Fromm, quote from Escape from Freedom
“Why drink to cover it up because hurting is feeling and feeling is living, and isn’t it good to be alive?’” Colton”
― K. Bromberg, quote from Crashed
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