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499f4b1	E dificil imaginar esses homens se entristecendo por causa da morte. Atila, o Huno, morreu jovem. Estava ainda na casa dos quarenta. Sera que ele se entregou a autocomiseracao e a depressao? Era o rei dos hunos, o invasor da Europa, o flagelo de Deus. Gosto de imagina-lo deitado em sua tenda, envolto em peles de animais, como numa superproducao internacional, dizendo coisas corajosas e crueis a seus auxiliares e dependentes. Nenhum amolecim..			Don DeLillo
0a939c6	There is a darkness attached to them, a foreboding. They make me wary not of personal failure and defeat but of something more general, something large in scope and content.			Don DeLillo
d989c3c	Ask yourself what it is you want more, to ease your ancient fear or to revenge your childish dopey injured male pride." I"			Don DeLillo
382baa5	He's under house arrest aboard the ship." "On what charge?" "Heinousness,"			Don DeLillo
48d1a1d	There was an aluminum awning over the office door. On the door itself were little plastic letters arranged in slots to spell out a message. The message was: NU MISH BOOT ZUP KO. Gibberish but high-quality gibberish.			Don DeLillo
99ad3d7	Et puis aussi, c'etait New York, ou les gens ne posent pas de questions.			Don DeLillo
9006302	These things happen to poor people who live in exposed areas. Society is set up in such a way that it's the poor and the uneducated who suffer the main impact of natural and man-made disasters. People			Don DeLillo
aa4f311	Billy couldn't recall ever having seen a blind man laugh			Don DeLillo
3a464da	We watched him use his spoon to mold the mashed potatoes on his plate into the shape of a volcanic mountain. He poured gravy ever so carefully into the opening at the top. Then he set to work ridding his steak of fat, veins and other imperfections. It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.			Don DeLillo
c37c2f1	The son of a bitch believes.		idealism humor	Don DeLillo
bc237ed	This is American two-one-three to the cockpit voice recorder. Now we know what it's like. It is worse than we'd ever imagined. They didn't prepare us for this at the death simulator in Denver. Our fear is pure, so totally stripped of distractions and pressures as to be a form of transcendental meditation. In less than three minutes we will touch down, so to speak. They will find our bodies in some smoking field, strewn about in the grisly a..			Don DeLillo
ef92e85	Chaque moment perdu est la vie.			Don DeLillo
08d3d35	Combien de commencements avant de voir les mensonges dans son propre enthousiasme ?			Don DeLillo
290ff09	I was living, in short, on the edge of a landscape of vast shame.			Don DeLillo
d482b0a	This is what long journeys are for. To see what's back behind you, lengthen the view, find the patterns, know the people, consider the significance of one matter or another and then curse yourself or bless yourself or tell yourself, in my father's situation, that you'll have a chance to do it all over again, with variations. He			Don DeLillo
7d4fa2d	And this is what I mainly learned up there, that the Parthenon was not a thing to study but to feel. It wasn't aloof, rational, timeless, pure. I couldn't locate the serenity of the place, the logic and steady sense. It wasn't a relic species of dead Greece but part of the living city below it. This was a surprise. I'd thought it was a separate thing, the sacred height, intact in its Doric order. I hadn't expected a human feeling to emerge ..			Don DeLillo
38361f6	We have our self-importance. We also have our inadequacy. The former is a desperate invention of the latter.			Don DeLillo
9a581b4	watched the coffee bubble up through the center tube and perforated basket into the small pale globe. A marvelous and sad invention, so roundabout, ingenious, human. It was like a philosophical argument rendered in terms of the things of the world--water, metal, brown beans. I had never looked at coffee before.			Don DeLillo
409b613	It's a Cadillac all right." "The Rolls-Royce of automobiles," Ottum"			Don DeLillo
a9a0c29	V nashem stoletii pisatel' vel dialog s bezumiem. O pisateliakh dvadtsatogo veka pochti mozhno skazat', chto oni stremilis' k bezumiiu. Kto-to, razumeetsia, preuspel, i takikh my osobenno uvazhaem. Bezumie dlia pisatelia -- eto okonchatel'noe rastvorenie ego <>, posledniaia besposhchadnaia pravka. Eto nyrok v tishinu, proch' ot gomona vymyshlennykh golosov.			Don DeLillo
653b2fc	Nie mam ciala. Jestem umyslem, swiadomoscia, samotny w wielkiej przestrzeni.			Don DeLillo
403199e	Voce nao sente as vezes um poder dentro de voce?", pergunta Vollmer. "Um estado extremo de saude, sei la. Uma saude arrogante. E isso. Voce se sente tao bem que comeca a achar que e um pouco superior as outras pessoas. Uma especie de forca vital. Um otimismo sobre voce mesmo, que e gerado quase que em detrimento dos outros. Voce nao sente isso as vezes?" (Sinto, sim.) "Deve ter um termo em alemao que quer dizer isso. Mas onde eu quero chega..			Don DeLillo
b83805b	You try to predict movements by drawing on patterns in nature. Yes, of course, the mathematical properties of tree rings, sunflower seeds, the limbs of galactic spirals. I learned this. I loved the cross harmonies between nature and data. You taught me this. You made this form of analysis horribly and sadistically precise. But you forgot something along the way.			Don DeLillo
2e7b991	Six point nine seconds of heat and light. Let's call a meeting to analyze the blur. Let's devote our lives to understanding this moment, separating the elements of each crowded second. We will build theories that gleam like jade idols, intriguing systems of assumption, four-faced, graceful. We will follow the bullet trajectories backwards to the lives that occupy the shadows, actual men who moan in their dreams. Elm Street. A woman wonders ..			Don DeLillo
ffadec9	Televidenie - predsmertnye sudorogi chelovecheskogo soznaniia			Don DeLillo
f78cd9b	Nada existia a su alrededor. Solo el sonido dentro de su cabeza, la mente suspensa en el tiempo. Cuando muriese, no seria su fin. Seria el fin del mundo.			Don DeLillo
b7e3d0e	He writes about mud and death and he makes me hungry.			Don DeLillo
3d97854	my arms on the cinder track. Kids came running our way, thirty girls in bright shorts, an improbable bobbing mass. The eager breathing, the overlapping rhythms of their footfalls. Sometimes I think our love is inexperienced. The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future. Simple things are doomed, or is that a superstition? We watched			Don DeLillo
abbccc6	Helpless and fearful people are drawn to magical figures, mythic figures, epic men who intimidate and darkly loom. ... Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death. You thought he would protect you. I understand completely.			Don DeLillo
91cc89a	Marvin thought of his bowel movements as BMs, a phrase he'd heard an army doctor mutter once. His BMs were turning against him, turning violent in a way. He and Eleanor went through the Dolomites and across Austria and nipped into the northwest corner of Hungary and the stuff came crashing out of him, noisy and remarkably dark. But mainly it was the smell that disturbed him. He was afraid Eleanor would notice. He realized this was probably ..			Don DeLillo
81ae966	We will follow the bullet trajectories backwards to the lives that occupy the shadows, actual men who moan in their dreams.		history conspiracies	Don DeLillo
2b489db	The dangerous secrets used to be held outside the government. Plots, conspiracies, secrets of revolution, secrets of the end of the social order. Now it's the government that has a lock on the secrets that matter. All the danger is in the White House, from nuclear weapons on down.		government danger secrets power	Don DeLillo
96fa04d	Did you see what you just did? You took the coffee can with you to the counter." "So what?" "You didn't have to. You could have left it by the stove where you were standing and then gone to the counter to get the spoon." "You're saying I carried the coffee can unnecessarily." "You carried it in your ri ght hand all the way to the counter, put it down to open the drawer, which you didn't want to do with your left hand, then got the spoon ..			Don DeLillo
cabc967	In other words if I give up now I'll almost surely give up in the more important contests of the future." "That's it exactly, Gary." "I'm giving up," I said."			Don DeLillo
90df8f5	You don't know the connection? You don't know that every privilege in your life and every thought in your mind depends on the ability of the two great powers to hang a threat over the planet?		underworld	Don DeLillo
3d29f8e	There's a theory about deja vu." "I don't want to hear it." "Why do we think these things happened before? Simple. They did happen before, in our minds, as visions of the future. Because these are precognitions, we can't fit the material into our system of consciousness as it is now structured. This is basically supernatural stuff. We're seeing into the future but haven't learned how to process the experience. So it stays hidden until the p..			Don DeLillo
3f63458	Have you ever seen so many people," she whispered, "gathered in one place in order to be rich, powerful and disgusting together?"			Don DeLillo
b72d995	In time I let my head ease back on the top step and I closed my eyes. I was moving into the biblical phase of the afternoon, the peak of my new simplicity. A verity less than eternal had little appeal. I prepared myself to think of night, desert, sorrowful forests, of the moon, the stars, the west wind, baptismal mist and the rich myrrh of harvested earth. Instead I thought of tits.			Don DeLillo
318f20a	A Catholic gets it early. Incense, organ music, ashes on the forehead, wafer on the tongue. The best things shimmer with fear.		religion	Don DeLillo
33b4dcd	Murray said, "I don't trust anybody's nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It's a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country."			Don DeLillo
5ebd02f	He and Kennedy were partners. The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history.			Don DeLillo
bc65361	Most of our longings go unfulfilled.			Don DeLillo
6993555	Como esta indo o seu seminario sobre desastres de carros? - Ja examinamos centenas de colisoes. Carros com carros. Carros com caminhoes. Caminhoes com onibus. Motos com carros. Carros com helicopteros. Caminhoes com caminhoes. Meus alunos acham que esses filmes sao profeticos. Que ilustram a tendencia suicida da tecnologia. O impulso de suicidar-se, a sede incontrolavel de suicidio. - O que voce diz a eles? - De modo geral, sao filmes class..			Don DeLillo
37cad95	The flow is constant," Alfonse said. "Words, pictures, numbers, facts, graphics, statistics, specks, waves, particles, motes. Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we need them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. This is where California comes in. Mud slides, brush fires, coastal erosion, earthquakes, mass killings, et cetera. We can relax and enjoy these disasters because in our hearts we feel that Cal..			Don DeLillo

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