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« It is hope that forbids us to act, it is hope that prolongs the misfortune of men, since, not, against all evidence, "everything will be fixed". Can't be what shouldn't be. The real question we should ask ourselves every time is this: "How does accepting a given point of view suit me?" (THANKS) »
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« ... the small world of literature seems to him a burlesque train where crooks without tickets settle noisily in the first with the complicity of incompetent controllers, while remain on the platform of modest geniuses ... »
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« His first vision of Lagos, of the window, through the brown cloud of pollution, were square kilometers of slums glued to each other, millions of rusted tin roofs, an anarchic grid, and also this huge traffic jam, colored in yellow and black of doryphore by these thousands of minibuses so dangerous that one tries to ban them, in vain. And every summer, when the torrential rains come, Lagos reminds everyone that it means "lakes" in Portuguese. (page 87) »
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