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“How you, a weak boy caught in the middle of a storm, both in reality and metaphorically, would risk your life to save some girl—some girl who tortured you, ignored you, destroyed you.”

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“Então você cresce, amadurece, e aprende_ a duras penas_ que o mundo não é feito de açúcar, que os adultos nem sempre detêm a verdade_ quase nunca detêm..._ que algumas coisas não saem do jeito que a gente quer. Mas a dor do crescimento aparece mesmo quando você descobre que algo em que você acreditava deixou de existir. É assustador ter que reformular tudo aquilo que te constituía e não constitui mais. Temos que estar dispostos a abrir mão de nossas crenças, de nossos planos tão reais, palpáveis, terrenos... para acreditar numa nova realidade. E vamos descobrindo que nada é tão real, palpável ou terreno. Que tudo pode mudar num piscar de olhos, enquanto nos apegamos ao que é conhecido. Percebemos que vivemos, mas não pertencemos. Amamos, mas não controlamos. Temos fé no invisível, mas nunca estamos prontos...”

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Author:Fabíola Simões
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“amadurecer (v.): é saber admitir que errei com quem eu amo e parar de jogar a culpa no destino e no medo. é não fugir de certas memórias e voltar a ouvir a banda que eu evitava por causa de outra pessoa. é aprender o real valor dos nossos pais. é perceber que, infelizmente, nem tudo tem conserto. é endurecer a alma. é viver o suficiente para aprender que sou uma versão melhor de mim não pela quantidade de vezes que acertei, mas pela quantidade de vezes que errei.”

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“We discover the properties of mathematical objects such as triangles. We don’t invent them. This is a crucial point. If we invented the properties of triangles, they would be temporal, contingent entities, subject to incompleteness and inconsistency, and all of our manmade fallacies and errors. In fact, the properties of triangles are the same whether human beings exist or not, and, moreover, these properties are eternally true. Nothing is more astounding than the idea of eternal truths because such truths prove conclusively that mathematics has existed forever, that it’s uncreated and uncaused. Nothing gave rise to mathematics because, in order to do so, it would have to be older than mathematics, and nothing can be older than eternity. Of only one thing can we be sure: eternal things are mathematical things, and not any other kind of thing. “God” would be eternal only if he were mathematical!”

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“The Marshall Society talk was doubtless interesting, but probably not altogether pleasant for Hayek. Some forty-odd years later, Joan Robinson in her Ely Lecture talked about how Hayek had “covered the blackboard with his triangles” and about the “pitiful state of confusion” within economics that his talk, in retrospect, represented. In her recounting, Kahn had “asked in a puzzled tone, ‘Is it your view that if I went out tomorrow and bought a new overcoat, that would increase unemployment?’ ‘Yes,’ said Hayek. ‘But,’ pointing to his triangles on the board, ‘it would take a very long mathematical argument to explain why’” (Robinson 1978a [1972], 2–3). In his own reminiscence, Kahn (1984) observed: “It is only fair to Hayek to mention that he had to condense four lectures into one, and that they were written when he had a high temperature” (182).”

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Book:Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950
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