quotes

The idea here is to have a collection of phrases, aphorisms and other pieces of text that together, may overcome the taxonomic rigidity of a manifesto. Maybe you'll get a better idea of me as a person.

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"And if I say “I” it’s because I dare not say “you,” or “we” or “one.” I’m forced to the humility of personalizing myself belittling myself but I am the are-you."

~ Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"Invariably does a human being feel lost when he or she first breaks away from life and finds no support in place of it."

~ Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov, Oblomov

"Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for cold entrées"

~ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray