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Pão dos anjos: A história da minha vida

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Entretenimento Inteligente. O Cinema de Billy Wilder

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“This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.”
― Kafka Franz, Diaries, 1910-1923

tags: artist-s-imagination, creative-imagination, creative-process, inner-world, world-building, writing

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“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women

tags: love, pain, relationships, self

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“I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

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“It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

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“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
― Steven Spielberg

tags: education, reading

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