January 2012
26 posts
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“O contato verdadeiro entre os seres só pode ser estabelecido pela presença muda,...”
– E. M. Cioran, Do inconveniente de ter nascido
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“But what would you think of an anterior state of suicide, a suicide that would...”
– Antonin Artaud, Is Suicide a Solution?
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“Nonhuman animals don’t seem to “care” about their pain to the same extent that...”
– Gary Williams, Just how far should we expand the circle of ethics?
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“Unsheathe your dagger definitions. Horseness is the whatness of allhorse....”
– James Joyce, Ulysses
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“Student: Would you say that loneliness is love?
Trungpa Rinpoche: I think we...”
– Chogyam Trungpa, The Path is the Goal
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“I am fond of how philosopher Daniel Dennett deals with this problem of...”
– Gary Williams, Minds and Brains
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“As children, we have all suspected it: perhaps we are all, moving strangely...”
– Georges Bataille, The Cruel Practice of Art
“É claro que, até certo ponto, todas as sociedades estão em guerra consigo...”
– David Graeber | Fragmentos de uma antropologia anarquista. Porto Alegre: Deriva, 2011, p. 48-49.
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“devorar pausadamente a luminosidade desse youtube
emprestado a descanso (sem...”
– Paulo Scott
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“All my life I have longed to be alone in a place like this. Even when everything...”
– Per Petterson, Out stealing horses
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“People who were born alone are defined by feelings like “Who’s gonna be with me...”
– Laurie Anderson na Believer
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December 2011
36 posts
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“Had Pyrrhus not fallen for a beldam´s hand in Argos or Julius Caesar not been...”
– James Joyce, Ulysses
“Por outro lado a leitura, principalmente por entretenimento, parece estar se...”
– Eduardo Pinheiro, Desconfie da leitura fácil
“Continual connectivity has led to a new sensibility. People move from a way of...”
– Sherry Turkle in [Plazm Magazine]
“Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”
– David Mitchell (via aswiseasthesunrise)
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“Poderia dizer também que a escrita devora a minha vida. Ao anoitecer, já não...”
– Péter Esterházy
“Quando uma pessoa escreve livros há muito tempo, sempre acaba tentando escrever...”
– Péter Esterházy
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“Whenever someone asks me whether I believe in God, I simply have no idea what...”
– Stephen Batchelor, Confession of a Buddhist Atheist
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“Consciousness is what happens when an organism encounters an environment. If an...”
– Stephen Batchelor, Confession of a Buddhist Atheist