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What is less or more than a touch?

- Walt Whitman


Human touch. Our first form of communication. Safety, security, comfort, all in the gentle caress of a finger. Or at the brush of lips in a soft cheek. It connects us when we're happy... bolsters us in times of fear... excites us in times of passion... and love.

- Stella in Five Feet Apart, 2019
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[lang may yer lum reek]

isabela
isabela
isabela
is-absolutely-ela
bonnie
bella donna
dona de si – is a bela

- AR
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o pensamento dividido entre deitar-se primeiro
à esquerda ou à direita

- adélia prado
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TORVI

What happened to you, Lagertha?

LAGERTHA

I almost died but was reborn.

TORVI

You were between life and death. What did that teach you?

LAGERTHA

The only thing that I've learned is that life is about suffering. There is no escape from it. That's the truth. What's important is how we deal with suffering, how we deal with the truth. 

- Vikings, S05E20
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Are there words thin enough for such thin lips?
Smiles are more tenuous than laughter,
And their only echo is pain.

- Laura Riding Gottschalk
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wondering which me will survive
- audre lorde
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He he he he and he and he and and he and he and he and and as and as he and as he and he. He is and as he is, and as he is and he is, he is and as he and he and as he is and he and he and he and he.

- Gertrude Stein
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He.
He.
As add to it.
As add to it.
As he
As he as add to it.
He.
As he
Add to it.
Not so far.
Constantly as seen.
Not as far as to mean.
I mean I mean.
Constantly.
As far.
So far.
Forbore.
He forbore.

- Gertrude Stein
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I have returned here a thousand times,
though history cannot tell us its location.

- Frank Bidart
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now, just the glamour of habits
- frank bidart
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Now that your life nears its end
when you turn back what you see
is ruin. You think it is a prison. No,
it is a vast resonating chamber in
which each thing you say or do is

new, but the same.

- Frank Bidart
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BISHOP HEAHMUND

You saved my life. Thank you.

LAGERTHA

But if I had not spared your life, you would now be in heaven. I believe you are a Christian priest? Isn't that where you would prefer to be?

BISHOP HEAHMUND

I am a priest. But I am also a man. I love God. But I also love life.

LAGERTHA

And what is it about life that you love so much?

BISHOP HEAHMUND

 Its joy. Its pain.

LAGERTHA

And do you love human beings?

BISHOP HEAHMUND

Our Lord loved all human beings. His love was agape, not eros. A great embracing love.

LAGERTHA

And do you have that same embracing love, priest? Do you love men and women just the same?

BISHOP HEAHMUND

I am not our Lord. Agape is too hard for me. I love women, not just spiritually.

LAGERTHA

We have no problems loving the spirit and the flesh. Our gods encourage it.

BISHOP HEAHMUND

Then you have no guilt? No remorse?

LAGERTHA

No.

BISHOP HEAHMUND

I envy you. I have spent many years of my life living sinfully. Even in my thoughts.

LAGERTHA

You're funny. Your thoughts are your thoughts. But if you do terrible things, that is different. 

- Vikings, S05E09
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vento mudou de lugar
- raul bopp
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à beira de um mar rigorosamente igual
a única coisa que não muda porque muda sempre

- ana martins marques
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Saturday vibe (drinking aperol spritz)

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sit down class, open up your books on page 42 48
porcupine-ology, antler-ology
car-ology, bus-ology, train-ology, plane-ology
mama-ology, papa-ology, you-ology, me-ology
love-ology, kiss-ology, stay-ology, please-ology

i'm sorry-ology, forgive me-ology
let's study

- regina spektor
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Freya. Beloved godess. Think well of me. See my suffering. Heal my heart, and let my prayers come unto you.

- Torvi in Vikings, S05E07
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quanta nostalgia

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WHAT CHOICE I HAD 

DEPOIS DE TE AMAR?

Fate is fato.
É fado.
Eu falo: fi-lo.
'Twas destino.

- AR
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Lord Odin, did I make the right choice? Give me a sign. Help me. What is my fate?

- Hvitserk in Vikings, S05E04
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All things change. This world is impermanent and deceiving. Many things are not what they seem.

- Sinric in Vikings, S05E04
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I know what I am (God knows what I am)
Enquanto dura esta hora
Este luar, estes ramos
And I know what I'm not (and He knows what I'm not)
Deixem-me crer
O que nunca poderei ser

- Madame X & Ricardo Reis
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sou formado em desencontros
- manoel de barros
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e que soy del blocke también como jenny
- major lazer & anitta

she's not me
she doesn't have my name
- madonna

i'm still, i'm still jenny from the block
- jennifer lopez
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tudo era claro, jovem, alado
- eugénio de andrade
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hello sunshine, won't you stay?
- bruce springsteen
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quando vejo meu ex

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I'm searching for my love
- Bruce Springsteen

I don't search, I find
- Madonna
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don't worry about tomorrow, don't mind the scars
- bruce springsteen
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I woke up this morning with stones in my mouth
You said eu menti pra você

- Bruce Springsteen & Karina Buhr
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depiction of my mind working

Rosa Bonheur, The Horse Fair, 1853-1855

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bitch i'm loca chasin' wild horses
- madonna & bruce springsteen

George Stubbs, Horse Frightened by a Lion, 1763 

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No, I wasn't lost
It was a different feeling
A mix of lucidity and craziness

- Madame X
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the road is long and the highway listens
- madame x
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A new democracy
God and pornography

- Madame X
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bésame la boca
- madame x
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MADAME X, C'EST MOI

Bitch, I'm Loca
- Madonna

Le gustan menores como yo, se le ve
- Maluma

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~no volume máximo~
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not wanting, wanting
- lagertha in vikings, s04e11
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eu te amo
mas não deixo você me destruir

- madame x
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o mundo é selvagem
o caminho é solitário
- madame x

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What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all. What can we do then? What else is left but to abandon even the hope of truth and content ourselves instead with stories? In these stories, it doesn't matter who the heroes are. All we want to know is: who is to blame?

- Chernobyl, S01E01
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no clarão, no vasto, no vago, no vão, no não, na multidão
- adriana calcanhotto
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não sei o que quer dizer a metáfora
o que eu digo me vem das vísceras

- adriana calcanhotto
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era pra ficar eternamente no presente
- adriana calcanhotto
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onda depois doutra onda
depois doutra onda depois
doutra onda depois
onda depois doutra onda
depois doutra onda depois
doutra onda depois

- adriana calcanhotto
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ROLO

Being alive is nothing. It doesn't matter what I do. Ragnar is my father, he is my mother, he is Lagertha. He is Siggy. He is everything I cannot do. Everything I cannot be. I love him. He is my brother. He's taken me back. But I am so angry! Why am I still so angry? You tell me, wise one. 

SEER

Hmm.

ROLO 

Or I will tell you! It is because I am useless, feckless, hollowed-out by failed ambitions, by failed loves. Nothing good can ever come of my life now.

SEER

[laughs]

ROLO

What is there to laugh about?

SEER

Oh, Rollo, if you truly knew what the gods have in store for you, you would go down now and dance naked on the beach.

- Vikings, S03E05
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mas é normal
dor de amor e contas pra vencer

I'm sorry baby
Do you still love me?

- Maglore

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mas se eu deixar pra lá
if I stopped
vai escurecer dentro de mim
the pain
esse sentimento
was unbearable

- tiê & mary oliver
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sinto saudades já não me recordo por quê
- maglore
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Memória afetiva – eu tinha 14 anos quando ouvi o álbum Profana pela primeira vez.  Momento maravilhosamente kitsch hoje à noite quando Gal Costa cantou Chuva de prata com essa iluminação. Acabou comigo.

Show A Pele Do Futuro, Teatro Gustavo Leite, Maceió-AL, 06/06/19

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BREAKAGE
by Mary Oliver

I go down to the edge of the sea.
How everything shines in the morning light!
The cusp of the whelk,
the broken cupboard of the clam,
the opened, blue mussels,
moon snails, pale pink and barnacle scarred –
and nohing at all whole or shut, but tattered, split,
dropped by the gulls onto the gray rocks and all the moisture gone.
It's like a schoolhouse
of little words,
thousands of words.
First you figure out what each one means by itself,
the jingle, the periwinkle, the scallop
full of moonlight.

Then you begin, slowly, to read the whole story.
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ROLO

I too loved someone in the same way once. I sat among the reeds, waiting and waiting for my love. I prized that woman as much as my own life. Lot of good it did to me.

RAGNAR

And what did you get from sitting in the reeds, but a wet arse.

TORSTEIN

[laughs]

FLOKI

I would say, let no man mock another over what touches many men. Time and again the wise are fettered by beauty. They ache with love-longing. Lucky are the fools like you, Torstein, who remain unmoved and free.

TORSTEIN

[laughs]

- Vikings, S03E01
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Help me, Lord. Who are these gods who haunt my nights and wreck my peace? Odin, Thor, Freyr. You taught us not to worship false gods, but I have seen them. I have seen Thor in the sky. I have seen the sparks from his anvil. I felt the sea heave with his anger. Why is this false? Things I've seen with my own eyes.

- Athelstan in Vikings, S02E09
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tóxico romance
i'm slipping under

- as bahias e a cozinha mineira & britney spears
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pelo amor de deus me dê sossego para amar
- alice caymmi
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tudo o que é perfeito dá defeito cedo ou tarde
- alice caymmi
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kiss me on na boca
- sofi tukker
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vai ter uma festa
vamos a la fiesta
que eu vou dançar
bailar bailar
até o sapato pedir para parar
until my shoes ask me to stop
aí eu paro
tiro o sapato
take my shoes off
e danço o resto da vida
dancing until i'm bruised

chacal & sofi tukker
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e era o amor uma obscura trama
- chico buarque
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eles têm pena de eu viver sozinho
qual é o problema de estar na honra de sua própria companhia?

sem você o tempo é todo meu
posso até ver o futebol, ir ao museu ou não
fazer o que der na telha

chico buarque & vanessa da mata & chico buarque
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My Saturdays are like:

he's gone
he's gone
you're better off, i'm glad that he's gone
vá com deus, vá com deus, vá com deus
vá com deus, vá com deus, vá com deus

- tove lo & vanessa da mata