Notas de um bicho do mato

I.

“All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don’t, our lives get made up for us by other people.” 

II.

“To know yourself means, above all, to know your desire. Desires are what lurk at the heart of our behavior. It’s what determines our motivations. It’s what organizes our social relations. It’s what informs our politics, religions, ideologies, and above all, our conflicts.” ... Girard began his work in the 1960s with a new concept of human desire: our desires are not our own, he said, we are social creatures, and we learn what to want from each other." 

III.

"Difficult women aren’t all swashbuckling extroverts who shoot off their mouths and shout down their adversaries. Sometimes they just sit quietly and refuse to pretend to be agreeable… So genteel, yet so impressively difficult."

IV.

"Repentance keeps my heart impure."

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I. The Wave in the Mind, Ursula K. Le Guin

II. Na página da entrevista a René Girard, no programa "Entitled Opinions". Disponível aqui.

III. In Praise of Difficult Women, Karen Karbo

IV. Stream and Sun at Glendalough (excerto), W.B. Yeats