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"Estou com nojo deste autor porque fala da escravatura como se só hoje fosse uma coisa má, mas além disso é pretensioso com a linguagem. Isto é história de Portugal altamente condensada, não precisava de estilização ridícula só porque certos homens de uma certa geração precisam de exercer toda a ginástica de palavras que conseguirem para se sentirem inteligentes e superiores. Will I ever be able to finish this book?" — 16 mar. 2024 13:00
"Estou com nojo deste autor porque fala da escravatura como se só hoje fosse uma coisa má, mas além disso é pretensioso com a linguagem. Isto é história de Portugal altamente condensada, não precisava de estilização ridícula só porque certos homens de uma certa geração precisam de exercer toda a ginástica de palavras que conseguirem para se sentirem inteligentes e superiores. Will I ever be able to finish this book?" — 16 mar. 2024 13:00
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
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“Science is not separate from politics. As much as I would like it to be a pure thing, existing only in some intellectual realm unsullied by human struggle, it will always be entangled with the world we live in.”
― The Tropic of Serpents
― The Tropic of Serpents
“There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.”
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“Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
― The Origin of Species
― The Origin of Species
“This will sound peculiar, I know. But this love I have for dragons, my compulsion to understand them ... I have thought of it before as though there were a dragon within me. A part of my spirit. I do not believe it is true in any mystical sense, of course; I am as human as you are. But in the metaphorical sense, yes. 'Dragon-spirited' is a good a term for me as any."
He listened to this in silence, his expression settled into the grave lines it assumed when he was deep in thought. "Do you believe you are neither male nor female?"
I almost gave a malapert answer, but caught myself in time. We had an established habit of intellectual debate, and I valued it; I would not discard it now.
"So long as my society refuses to admit of a concept of femininity that allows for such things," I said, "then one could indeed say that I stand in between.”
― The Voyage of the Basilisk
He listened to this in silence, his expression settled into the grave lines it assumed when he was deep in thought. "Do you believe you are neither male nor female?"
I almost gave a malapert answer, but caught myself in time. We had an established habit of intellectual debate, and I valued it; I would not discard it now.
"So long as my society refuses to admit of a concept of femininity that allows for such things," I said, "then one could indeed say that I stand in between.”
― The Voyage of the Basilisk
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