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GAVIÕES DA FIEL - SAMBA ENREDO 1992

Solitude

"The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship." - Francis Bacon

"No man will ever unfold the capacities of his own intellect who does not at least checker his life with solitude."

 - Thomas de Quincey

Rumi

Don't Go Back to Sleep
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you;
Don't go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want;
Don't go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don't go back to sleep.

   

Peace In The Valley - Elvis Presley & Johnny Cash

If I can stop

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.

 ~ Emily Dickenson

Elvis presley owned a porcelain monkey.

Travel

"There must have been moments when Odysseus, years after his return from the Trojan War, relaxed on a sofa with a glass of wine in his hand and muttered to Penelope, 'You know, that was actually a pretty sweet trip.' That's one of the strange things about travelling."

- Jeff Greenwald, The Size of the World (the best travel book of all time)

Thoughts martin amis

"Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death."
- Miyamoto Musashi

"Suicide-mass murder is more than terrorism: it is horrorism. It is a maximum malevolence."
- Martin Amis, The Second Plane

"One can afford to be crude about this. When Islamists crash passenger planes into buildings, or hack off the heads of hostages, they shout 'God is great!' When secularists do that kind of thing, what do they shout?"
- ibid

"It [the world under bin Laden] would be a world of perfect terror and perfect boredom, and of nothing else – a world with no games, no arts, and no women, a world where the sole entertainment is the public execution."
- ibid

"Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black. We can’t tell if it will survive us. But we can be sure that it’s the last thing to go."
- ibid

"This is where we really go when we die: into the hearts of those who remember us."
- Martin Amis, Experience