"Saturday is an illusion."

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Source : "O óbvio ululante: as primeiras confissões" by Nelson Rodrigues, Editora Agir, (p. 194), 2007.

Nelson Rodrigues

#Illusion Quotes #Saturday Quotes

“I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience.”
“Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.”
“Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.”
“When we learn to TOLERATE boredom, we find out who we really are.”
“When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart, some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand--a center of gravity.”
“Some of the American military obviously were thinking in terms of fighting a nuclear war. I was opposed to that.”

Source : "War And Peace In The Nuclear Age". WGBH Educational Foundation interview, lsopenvault01.wgbh.org. November 12, 1987.
“I live in Brooklyn, in Williamsburg, so I just like to wander around. Williamsburg's such a cool little neighborhood community spot.”
“But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied.”

Source : Nassau William Senior (1858). “Political Economy”, p.4

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