"I am waiting for the Great Divide to be crossed   

and I am anxiously waiting

for the secret of eternal life to be discovered   

by an obscure general practitioner

and I am waiting

for the storms of life

to be over

and I am waiting

to set sail for happiness

and I am waiting

for a reconstructed Mayflower

to reach America

with its picture story and tv rights

sold in advance to the natives

and I am waiting

for the lost music to sound again

in the Lost Continent

in a new rebirth of wonder"

 "It's the age of doubt

And I doubt we’ll figure it out

Is it you or is it me?

The age of anxiety

(Are you talking to me?)

Fight the fever with TV

In the age when nobody sleeps

And the pills do nothing for me

In the age of anxiety, now

(...)

It's a maze of mirrors

It's a hologram of a ghost

And you can’t quite touch it

Which is how it hurts us the most

So we keep it all inside (Keep it all inside)

And hide it deep in a drawer"

 “First of all, they came to take the gypsies

and I was happy because they pilfered.
Then they came to take the Jews and I said nothing,
because they were unpleasant to me.
Then they came to take homosexuals,
and I was relieved, because they were annoying me.
Then they came to take the Communists,
and I said nothing because I was not a Communist.
One day they came to take me,
and there was nobody left to protest.

"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."

 "It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one."

 "It's upsetting, is a pathetic excuse for his behavior, for something that himself helped to create: this monstrosity."

 "Você enfim aprendeu a existir. E isto provoca o desencadeamento de muitas outras liberdades, o que é um risco para a tua sociedade. Até a liberdade de ser bom assusta os outros."

 "Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything."

"Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final"

 “Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky enough to find someone who appreciates you."

 "Além disso, há na nova direita radical um culto da irracionalidade e do tradicionalismo, entendidos como fontes privilegiadas de conhecimento, que obviamente desautoriza a ascendência dos especialistas. Não admira que, nesse abismo mental, a ciência e a técnica sejam vistas em tons conspiratórios, como armadilhas de entidades multinacionais para controlar mentes e corpos. Existe ainda um traço comum a essa direita que, pessoalmente, não me espanta, mas talvez possa espantar certos leitores apressados: ela não se limita a suspeitar da razão, do iluminismo ou da ciência. (...) Moral da história? Quando a direita radical marcha contra as vacinas e contra as medidas de confinamento, ela não está preocupada com a liberdade individual, com o futuro da economia ou até com a melhor forma de enfrentar uma pandemia. Essas são preocupações dos libertários, não dos reacionários. Para a direita radical, a luta contra vacinas é apenas a variação de um tema mais vasto: a recusa total da modernidade e dos seus frutos decadentes."

 "The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance."

 "This is ain't summer of love

This is the summer of

Racist running, cities burning

Children show you what they're learning

Whole world finally fade away

Move like generation A

 

I can't wait

I can't wait

Too little, too late"

"Postmodernity means the exhilarating freedom to pursue anything, yet mind-boggling uncertainty as to what is worth pursuing and in the name of what one should pursue it."

"Amor líquido é um amor até segundo aviso, o amor a partir do padrão dos bens de consumo: mantenha-o enquanto ele te trouxer satisfação, e o substitua por outros que prometem ainda mais satisfação. É o amor com um espectro de eliminação imediata e, assim, também de ansiedade permanente, pairando acima dele. Na sua forma “líquida”, o amor tenta substituir a qualidade por quantidade — mas isso nunca pode ser feito, como seus praticantes mais cedo ou mais tarde acabam percebendo."

 "A modernidade líquida em que vivemos traz consigo uma misteriosa fragilidade dos laços humanos - um amor líquido. A segurança inspirada por essa condição estimula desejos conflitantes de estreitar esses laços e ao mesmo tempo mantê-los frouxos;"

"Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.”

 “We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe."

"I wish I was like you
Easily amused
Find my nest of salt

(...)

All in all is all we are"

 "The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves."