May 2013
11 posts
Nature, you know..I used to wish that I was able to enable you to be capable of...
– The Mind (Nature and Nurture), Primitive Reason, from Alternative Prison
Through Wagner modernity speaks most intimately, concealing neither its good nor...
– Friedrich Nietzsche, in The Case of Wagner
Changing ourselves. Surely that must be what we’re after when we look at...
– Brian Eno
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as...
– Brian Eno, daqui
Warwick:
There is a history in all men’s lives,
Figuring the nature of...
– King Henry The Forth Part II, Act III, Scene I, William Shakespeare
Esperas que desaparezca la angustia
Mientras llueve sobre la extraña carretera...
– Roberto Bolaño, in La Universidad Desconocida
April 2013
17 posts
Já viram um homem em pêlo
Sair de repente da casa de banho
Escorrendo por...
– Boris Vian
Spent my days with a woman unkind, Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine.
Made...
– Going to California, Led Zeppelin
Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth....
– Frank Zappa
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of...
– atribuído a Sigmund Freud
I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing,
All alone stood it and the moss hung...
– Walt Whitman
CUSHION FIRST
When all your days are dark with doubt;
And drying hope...
– Mark Twain
Atenção
Não desenhes imagens bonitas à conta da solidão.
Deixa a solidão...
– Nuno Costa Santos, in às vezes é um insecto que faz disparar o alarme
Não se trata apenas de um país, que é o nosso, e isso já é justificação...
– Adriano Moreira, aqui
If nothing else, one ought to know how to treat a comma. Abandonment or abuse of...
– The comma from which my heart hangs, by Benjamin Samuel
March 2013
14 posts
The new generation of teens and post-teens are blocked from generating novel,...
– daqui
An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King;
Princes, the dregs of their dull...
– Percy Bysshe Shelley, England in 1819
How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend...
– Dwight Eisenhower
Aceitar eu que D. Quixote mentisse, sendo o mais verídico fidalgo e o mais nobre...
– Miguel de Cervantes; O Engenhoso Fidalgo D. Quixote de la Mancha
February 2013
8 posts
Na nossa pequena cidade, talvez por efeito do clima, tudo se faz ao mesmo tempo,...
– Albert Camus, A Peste
February, ’47
My dear Cousin,
I am very happy to know that you “would have...
– Søren Kierkegaard writes to Julie Thomsen
Paulo, templo vivo de Cristo, é um individualista espiritualista, elevado ao...
– Teixeira de Pascoaes, São Paulo
Lord que eu fui de Escócias doutra vida
Hoje arrasta por esta a sua decadência,...
– Mário de Sá-Carneiro, O Lord
Ninguém diria que ele faria um defunto tão bonito.
– James Joyce, Dublinners