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“A leitura é como que uma droga que confere um adormecimento agradável aos contornos da crueldade da vida.”
― Imre Kertész

“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac