You can be remade
You can live again
What was pain now's gained
- Bon Iver
As palavras te governam e te configuram
delimitam as fronteiras de tua solidão
os caminhos da eternidade e do adeus.
As palavras assinalam o momento de tua morte
e te ensinam a abrir a porta onde não existe porta.
- Francisco Carvalho
Ele é ignorante porque, apesar de se achar muito experto, reduziu toda a visão de mundo em cima de ganhar dinheiro.
- Luiz Felipe Pondé sobre Ebenezer Scrooge em Linhas Cruzadas
Uma das características da experiência triste, ou das paixões tristes, como se fala em filosofia, é o fato de que muitas pessoas não são tristes. Isso é uma das coisas que deixa as pessoas tristes mais tristes.
- Luiz Felipe Pondé em Linhas Cruzadas
When you give so much of yourself to your partner, you hope it's enough. But I realize it doesn't matter how much I love him, even after these countless years. It only matters whether or not you save him.
- Emma em Earth Abides, S01E04
We never truly walk alone even when we feel alone, despite grief.
- Tyler in Live from the Other Side with Tyler Henry, S01E13
Mystery, or unkowing, is energy. As soon as a mystery is explained, it ceases to be a source of energy. If we question deep enough there comes a point where answers, if answers could be given, would kill. We may want to dam the river; but we dam the spring at our own peril. In fact, since 'God' is unknowable, we cannot dam the spring of basic existencial mystery. 'God' is the energy of all questions and questing; and so the ultimate source of all action and volution.
- John Fowles in The Aristos
How many times does a man wait for another man
Who won't come? Three times,
Or four. Then he leaves,
Crosses a field of summer thorns,
And lies in his home.
His heart didn't grow hard, like the soles
Of his feet that walked a lot.
Taxis of dawn tear
The clothes of his sleep:
To live is to tear;
To die, to be torn.
- Yehuda Amichai
If God is real, and he watches when we masturbate, and he has such a fragile ego that he only helps us when we beg him and shower him with praise, and he hates gay people for being what he made them to be, well, that is terrifying.
- Mr. Reed in Heretic, 2024
Even if you can't
make of your life what you want,
try this at least
to the extent that you can.
Do not devalue your life
by being too much in touch with society
too much to-and-fro and chat.
Do not devalue your life by escorting it,
turning it constantly about and exposing it
to the every day nonsense
of relationships and parties,
until it turns foreign, a burden.
- Constantine P. Cavafy
Ignorance
Philip Larkin
Strange to know nothing, never to be sure
Of what is true or right or real,
But force to qualify or so I feel,
Or Well, it does seem so:
Someone must know.
Strange to be ignorant of the way things work:
Their skill at finding what they need,
Their sense of shape, and the punctual spread of seed,
And willingness to change;
Yes, it is strange,
Even to wear such knowledge - for our flesh
Surrounds us with its own decisions -
And yet spend all our life on imprecisions,
That when we star to die
Have no idea why.
We are so much more than what we are going through
- Tyler Henry in Life from the other side with Tyler Henry, S01E09
You are scared because you have nothing to serve, no purpose, nowhere to put all that hurt and anger. You know how truly alone you are.
- Reverend Mother Dorothea in Dune: Prophecy, S01E03
Walls
Constantine P. Cavafy
With no consideration, no pity, no shame,
they have built walls around me, thick and high.
And now I sit here feeling hopeless.
I can't think of anything else: this fate gnaws my mind
because I had so much to do outside.
When they were building the walls, how could I not
have noticed!
But I never heard the builders, not a sound.
Imperceptibly, they have closed me off from the
outside world.
Minha mãe diz que eu não faço nada. Como não? Eu amo.
- Luiz Felipe Ponde cita Werther em Linhas Cruzadas
ANDRESA BONI
Para os artistas e pensadores do movimento romântico, iniciado no século XVII, o conceito de liberdade estava ligado à subjetividade, às emoções, à individualidade. A liberdade romântica poderia ser entendida como transgressora, Pondé?
LUIZ FELIPE PONDÉ
Muito. Inclusive o movimento romântico é muito responsável por fetichizar a transgressão como liberdade. O movimento romântico é de mal-estar com a modernização. Então, a liberdade que os românticos defendem, de cara, é a liberdade de "eu não ter que ser moderno", no sentido de ser eficiente, produtivo, quantitativo, funcional; porque este conjunto de funções vai convalescendo na modernização para se transformar em um verdadeiro contrato social prático que a gente sente na pele até hoje: tem que produzir, tem que bater meta, tem que entregar, tem que ter custos. Os românticos se sentem exilados do mundo, pois eles se sentem pessoas de um outro que acabou - apesar deles serem deste, porque eles vivem nesta época. Isso é um fenômeno moderno, de qualquer jeito.
GRACE
Pinky, what are you doing?
PINKY
I'm looking for something.
GRACE
What?
PINKY
I don't know.
Memoir of a Snail, 2024
I always wondered what your greatest fear would be. Now I have seen it. It's not that no one will hear you. It's that they will hear you and just won't care.
- Desmond in Dune: Prophecy, S01E02
New approach needed (excerpt)
Kingsley Amis
Should you revisit us,
Stay a little longer,
And get to know the place.
Experience hunger,
Madness, disease and war.
You heard about them, true,
The last time you came here;
It's different having them.
And what about a go
At love, marriage, children?
All good, but bringing some
Risk of remorse and pain
And fear of an odd sort:
A sort one should, again,
Feel, not just hear about,
To be qualified as
A human-race expert.
On local life, we trust
The resident witness,
Not the royal tourist.
O Machado é o antídoto contra você se transformar numa pessoa que acha que é muito boa, que tem absoluta certeza das ideias que você tem na cabeça, que você pode ter certeza do que você pensa à sua volta.
- Luiz Felipe Pondé sobre Machado de Assis em Linhas Cruzadas
I know that she knows.
They think she doesn't, but know otherwise.
She knows.
- Yehuda Amichai
She knows. She knows. She knows.
- J. Cole
Eye examination
Yehuda Amichai
Go back a bit. Close your left eye.
Still?
Go back a bit further. The wall has moved on.
What do you see?
What do you recognize in the dimness?
I remember a lovely song that went...
Now? What do you see now?
Still?–All the time.
Don't leave me. Please. Please.
You're not leaving.
I'm not.
Close one eye. Speak in a loud voice.
I can't hear—I'm already far away.
What do you recognize? What do you see?
Close one sad eye.
Yes.
Close the other sad eye. Yes.
I can see now.
And nothing else.
what is it to be, and not to be?
to be two things at once,
bifurcated at the root, like Janus
- Fariha Rósín
Remember in grad school, I wrote that paper on Capgras syndrome? It's this disorder where the people you're closest to all seem to have been replaced by impostors. But it's really you. You are the impostor. It's a kind of dissociation. You suffer a shock to your reality and, suddenly, you're on the outside looking in. And that's me.
- Eli in Before, S01E01
ANDRESA BONI
A busca pela redenção é um bom conselho na vida?
LUIZ FELIPE PONDÉ
Olha, a busca de redenção é, sem dúvida. Mas o problema é que não é você que a encontra, é ela que te acha—e sempre no meio da dor; o que ninguém gosta hoje em dia. As promessas são de paraísos. Seja redimido e seja feliz: uma coisa não tem nada a ver com a outra. Zero a ver. A vida é brutal.
Quem gosta de sofrimento é masoquista. E sofrimento você não precisa gostar,
ele vai te achar. Não tem jeito.
- Luiz Felipe Ponde em Linhas Cruzadas
KATE
Hey, maybe you should tell me what the fuck's actually going on. The part you left out.
HAL
Stop it.
KATE
Maybe it's OK for me to know.
HAL
I didn't do this to you when you kept things in the vault.
KATE
Why did you never ask me?
HAL
Because I trusted you.
KATE
I don't trust you. I don't. DO YOU TRUST YOU?
The Diplomat, S02E04
P.S. Kate, c'est moi!
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