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“Por que bonita, se coxa? Por que coxa, se bonita?”
― Machado de Assis, Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas

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“everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death”
― Thomas Bernhard

tags: awareness, critical-thinking, pain, patience

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“I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all. I like watching people, but I don’t like talking to them, dealing with them, pleasing them, or offending them. I am tired.”
― Susan Sontag, I, etcetera

tags: susan-sontag

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“We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck them.”
― John Waters

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“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."

(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)”
― Patti Smith

tags: books, materialism, musicians, pure-awesome, technology

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