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“(…) when preparing for my college entrance exams. It's a period of life when young people appear to have a great deal of freedom, but are in many ways actually very oppressed. (…) To escape from this depressing situation, they often find themselves wishing they could live in a world of their own — a world they can say is truly theirs, a world unknown even to their parents.”

saramago saramagou com este livro

finalmente pronta para ultrapassar o trauma do memorial 😎

“In my opinion, it's much sillier to be astonished at nothing than to be astonished at everything. And what's more: to be astonished at nothing is almost the same thing as to respect nothing. And a silly man is not capable of showing respect.”

“They locked up all their fools in a special building to reassure themselves that they're the sane ones. But really, locking somebody else up in a madhouse doesn't prove that you have brains. 'K. lost his mind, that means that we are sane. No, that isn't what that means.”

“In my opinion, the one who's smarter than all the rest is the one who calls himself a fool at least once a month - an unheard of talent nowadays! Before, a fool knew once a year at the very least that he was a fool, but now nothing doing. And they've muddled things so that you can't tell a fool from an intelligent person.“

“I love him; but that will pass, it must pass, it cannot but pass; it's already passing, I can sense it ... Who knows, perhaps it will even end today, because I hate him, because he's had a good laugh at my expense (…)”

“You see, now it's me whose tears are streaming down, Nastenka. Let them stream, let them stream - they won't bother anybody. They will dry, Nastenka ...”

“But I am calm. Enough! It's nothing. Just tears, they'll dry! Do you think that I'lI do away with myself, that I'll drown myself? …”

dostoyevsky it’s not dostoyevsking

“(…) because he has everything, because he is sated, because he himself is the artist of his life and he creates it for himself every hour to suit his latest whim.”

“It's as if the same sun that shines for all of Petersburg's people doesn't even peek into these places, but there is another different, new sun, as if specially ordered for these corners, and it shines on everything with a different, special light.”

"The story of my life!' I cried out, frightened. 'My story!
But who told you that I have a story to tell? I don't have a story ..
'But how have you lived if there's no story?' she interrupted, smiling.

Reunion 5/5

EU AMEI AMEI AMEI ESTA SHORT STORY SOCORRO

Ruler of the Wind and Sands<\b> 3/5

Não sei. Foi uma short story agradável de ler e gostei do final mas não foi um conceito inovador. Foi muito filme de catequese.

Home Sweet Home 4/5

O final desta short story teve vibes de American Horror Story Murder House.

Scars 4.5/5

A maior short story até agora e omg what a ride. O final é muito bleak mas gostei do que aconteceu ali no meio. Acho que vou ficar um pouco traumatizada com este livro.

Goodbye, My Love 4/5

mais uma história que segue temas —inteligência artificial, robots, androids — que já vi retratados várias vezes mas continua a ser uma história interessante.

Snare 4.5/5

o tema não foi fora da caixa como as primeiras histórias mas gostei muito na mesma.

The Frozen Finger 4.5/5

gostei muito desta!

“I'm a dreamer; I have so little real life that I regard such moments as this one, now, to be so rare that I can't help repeating these moments in my dreams.”

OH NÃO FUI VER E ELE É ESCORPIÃO

“I create entire love stories in my dreams.”

este homem tem peixes ou caranguejo no mapa astral

“I was walking and singing, because when I am happy I am sure to hum something to myself, like every other happy man who has neither friends nor good acquaintances and who in a joyful moment has nobody with whom he can share his joy.”

“It was a wonderful night, the kind of night, dear reader, which is only possible when we are young.” (…) is it really possible for bad-tempered and capricious people to live under such a sky? That is also a young person's question, dear reader, a very young person's question (…)”

Cursed Bunny 2/5

o plot twist no final não chega para compensar a seca que foi esta short story

The Embodiment 3/5

o conceito inicial da short story foi interessante (pílulas poderem engravidar uma pessoa) mas a execução final não foi nada de especial.