Esta noite, ao rolhar energicamente um frasco com a etiqueta Fórmula Especial n.º 30, cheguei ao fim da minha longa autobiografia: em palavras e em conserva, imortalizei as minhas recordações, ainda que, num como noutro método, seja inevitável a distorção. Temos de viver, receio bem, com as sombras da imperfeição.
Salman RushdieThe only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame.
Salman RushdieTags: perception analysis outside-the-box clear-mindedness clear-view view-from-outside whole-picture
A race that rejected the idea of personal sacrifice would surely be erased from time's records before long.
Salman RushdieTags: life humanity time sacrifice race record
All men needed to hear their stories told. He was a man, but if he died without telling the story he would be something less than that, an albino cockroach, a louse. The dungeon did not udnerstand the idea of as tory. The dungeon was static, eternal, black and a story needed motion adn tiem and light. He felt his story slipping away from him, beocming inconsequential, ceasing to be. He has no story. There was no story. He was not a man. There was no man here. There was only the dungeon, and the slithering dark.
Salman RushdieTags: dark story narrative medical-humanities
If power was a a cry, then human lives were lived in the echo of the cries of others.
Salman RushdieThere are those of us who learn to live completely in the moment. For such people the Past vanishes and the future loses meaning. There is only the Present, which means that two of the three Aalim are surplus to requirements. And then there are those of us who are trapped in yesterdays, in the memory of a lost love, or a childhood home, or a dreadful crime. And some people live only for a better tomorrow; for them the past ceases to exist
Salman RushdieTags: life time time-passing
All true believers have good reasons for disbelieving in every god except their own,' said Birbal, 'and so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.
Salman RushdieA maior parte das coisas que importam na nossa vida acontece na nossa ausência.
Salman RushdieShe was my ground, my favorite sound,
my country road, my city street,
my sky above, my only love,
and the ground beneath my feet
The ancient wisdoms are modern nonsenses. Live in your own time, use what we know, and as you grow up, perhaps the human race will finally grow up with you and put aside childish things.
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