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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

“Be sure to enjoy language, experiment with ways of talking, be exuberant even when you don't feel like it because language can make your world a better place to live.”
― Deborah Levy, Pillow Talk in Europe and Other Places

“O pior acidente que teve o Brasil em sua enfermidade foi o tolher-se lhe a fala: muitas vezes se quis queixar justamente, muitas vezes quis pedir o remédio de seus males, mas sempre lhe afogou as palavras na garganta, ou o respeito, ou a violência; e se alguma vez chegou algum gemido aos ouvidos de quem o devera remediar, chegaram também as vozes do poder, e venceram os clamores da razão”
― Padre Antônio Vieira, Sermões

“So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
― Epicurus