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“In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.”
― Thomas Mann

“A partir do momento em que é reconhecido, o absurdo é uma paixão, a mais dilacerante de todas.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

“Ser radical é tomar as coisas pela raiz. Mas, para o homem, a raiz é o próprio homem.”
― Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right

“Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.

The mere presence in the dictionary of a word like 'living' does not mean it necessarily has to refer to something definite in the real world.”
― Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Oh, minha alma não aspira à vida imortal,
mas esgota o campo do possível.”
― Pindarus

“Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.”
― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales

“I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.”
― Albert Einstein

“The religion of the future will be cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology.”
― Albert Einstein

“In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.

(Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)”
― Thomas a Kempis

“People aren’t the apex species they think they are. Other creatures-bigger, smaller, slower, faster, older, younger, more powerful-call the shots, make the air, and eat sunlight. Without them, nothing.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory