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2024 (204)

November: Fri, 22 — It Is Well Known That, From Birth to Adulthood….
November: Thu, 21 — Publicity, Like Polemics, Is Dispensable…
November: Wed, 20 — Sometimes It Seems That This Critical Need…
November: Tue, 19 — When One Follows the Recommendation…
November: Mon, 18 — Dostoevsky Prophesied It
November: Fri, 15 — Just as a Public Act Is Worth More…
November: Thu, 14 — Boredom, Lassitude and the Vices…
November: Wed, 13 — What Most Distinguishes Hatred…
November: Tue, 12 — Discomfort Chases Away Futility…
November: Mon, 11 — If What Distinguishes Being Is the Act…
November: Fri, 8 — The Experience of the Wars of the Last Century…
November: Thu, 7 — Some Biographies Generate…
November: Wed, 6 — Despite the Great Risk of Degeneration…
November: Tue, 5 — There Is No Denying That, Despite Everything…
November: Fri, 1 — In the Middle of the Last Century…
October: Thu, 31 — Solitude in Itself Is Far From Evil
October: Wed, 30 — Greek Mythology Is Truly Fascinating
October: Tue, 29 — In the Midst of Endless Hardships…
October: Mon, 28 — At Least One Lesson Can Be Learned…
October: Fri, 25 — The Man Who Needs to Understand Reality…
October: Thu, 24 — It Is Somewhat Curious That There Is a Veiled…
October: Wed, 23 — If, on the One Hand, It Is Very Useful
October: Mon, 21 — The Writer Should Always Remember…
October: Fri, 18 — Identifying the Political Leanings of Writers
October: Thu, 17 — More Striking Than This Permanent Need…
October: Tue, 15 — One Must Always Return to That….
October: Mon, 14 — There Is Nothing More Absurd Than Living…
October: Fri, 11 — The Brazilian Today Grows Up…
October: Tue, 8 — Some Experience in Literature Reveals…
October: Mon, 7 — What Is Most Discouraging…
October: Fri, 4 — To Specialize in Everyday Life…
October: Thu, 3 — Observing This Phenomenon of Assumption…
October: Tue, 1 — While It Is True That the Profession…
September: Mon, 30 — How Difficult It Is to Create Positive Work!
September: Fri, 27 — The Hard Part Is Noticing That…
September: Tue, 24 — A Genuinely Brazilian Quality
September: Mon, 23 — Seneca Said That If He Were Offered…
September: Fri, 20 — Sometimes I am Curious to look…
September: Tue, 17 — Although, as Has Been Said, Good Literature…
September: Mon, 16 — The Most Evident Effect of the Politicization…
September: Fri, 13 — Some Philosopher Has Noted…
September: Thu, 12 — The Bohemian Artist Is a Falsification
September: Tue, 10 — A Lot of Interesting Things Can Be Learned…
September: Mon, 9 — Above All, This Criticism That Cannot Analyze…
September: Fri, 6 — In the West, the Gradual Easing…
September: Thu, 5 — A Major Mistake of These Artists…
September: Wed, 4 — It Is Amazing How Easily Most People…
September: Tue, 3 — There Are No Words to Describe the Feeling…
September: Mon, 2 — In Order to Know How to Respect…
August: Fri, 30 — It Is Really Difficult to Reconcile…
August: Thu, 29 — It Is Incredible to See How Poetry…
August: Wed, 28 — Even Though They Border on the Unreal…
August: Tue, 27 — Disdain Is the Most Childish Response…
August: Mon, 26 — It Has Always Been Up to Philosophy…
August: Fri, 23 — One of the Greatest Inherent Difficulties…
August: Thu, 22 — The Best Literature Is Always…
August: Wed, 21 — Hindu Literature, Whose Real Exuberance…
August: Tue, 20 — Procrastination, in the Face of the Conscience…
August: Mon, 19 — If There Is One Thing That Is Well Portrayed…
August: Fri, 16 — If the Future of Paper Books Seems Uncertain…
August: Thu, 15 — Not Even the Most Deeply Ingrained Habit…
August: Wed, 14 — Perhaps the Most Intricate Problem Facing…
August: Tue, 13 — There Is a Piece of Advice That Would…
August: Mon, 12 — The Advantage of a Novel With a Well-Defined…
August: Fri, 9 — The Most Difficult Thing About Portraying…
August: Thu, 8 — The Most Impressive Thing About Medieval Art…
August: Wed, 7 — The Individual Who Does Not Read Fiction
August: Tue, 6 — In Brazil, the Average Citizen Spends…
August: Mon, 5 — The False Writer Gives Up His Individuality…
August: Fri, 2 — It Is Hard to Gauge How Mediocre…
August: Thu, 1 — The Least That Is Expected of a Writer
July: Wed, 31 — The Free Man and The Slave
July: Tue, 30 — Sometimes It Is Very Difficult to Detect…
July: Mon, 29 — The Most Obvious Distinction…
July: Fri, 26 — “Il s’agit de se réaliser”
July: Thu, 25 — The Fascinating Thing About Literature
July: Wed, 24 — The Writer’s First Duty
July: Tue, 23 — The Best Books Do Not Reveal Something Unknown
July: Mon, 22 — Ideas Do Not Die Easily
July: Fri, 19 — More unjustifiable than the obsession…
July: Thu, 18 — The Author Who, for Example, Says Something…
July: Tue, 16 — It is always a great challenge to balance…
July: Mon, 15 — At the Same Time as It Seems Impossible…
July: Fri, 12 — Having Overcome the Initial Awe…
July: Thu, 11 — Christianity Is Right When It Recommends…
July: Wed, 10 — A Tree Is Known by Its Fruit…
July: Tue, 9 — Behind Every Decisive Eureka…
July: Mon, 8 — There Are Many Examples of Beautiful Works…
July: Fri, 5 — The Modern Mind, Which Mistakenly Believes…
July: Thu, 4 — Of All the Characteristics of the Modern Intellectual…
July: Tue, 2 — Despite Seeming Non-Existent Today…
July: Mon, 1 — The Law Only Fulfills the Social Function…
June: Fri, 28 — The Impressive Thing About Habit…
June: Thu, 27 — The Commitment Not to Give Up…
June: Tue, 25 — It Is Really Impressive to Contrast…
June: Fri, 21 — Every Preface Is More or Less Useless
June: Thu, 20 — Often What Motivates Misanthropy…
June: Wed, 19 — What Is Valuable About Theosophists…
June: Tue, 18 — It Is Hard to Imagine a More Effective Fuel…
June: Fri, 14 — The Democratic Destruction of Superiority
June: Thu, 13 — The Ignorant Knowledge
June: Wed, 12 — The Impossibility of Making Money…
June: Fri, 7 — For the Artist, Just as Important…
June: Thu, 6 — Beyond the Unavoidable Damage…
June: Wed, 5 — It Would Be Very Amusing to Have a Book…
June: Tue, 4 — The 20th Century Does Not Seem…
June: Mon, 3 — It Cannot Be Accepted for a Second…
May: Fri, 31 — Intelligence Begins With the Ability…
May: Thu, 30 — This Frustrated Longing for Isolation…
May: Wed, 29 — There Are Things That Can Only Be Learned…
May: Tue, 28 — Ortega y Gasset’s Approach to the Problem…
May: Mon, 27 — Condition and Necessity
May: Fri, 24 — He Who Suffers the Most Tends to Become…
May: Thu, 23 — Every Man Always Ends Up Enduring…
May: Wed, 22 — The Realistic and Objective Fictional Narrative…
May: Tue, 21 — In No Way Can the Thirst for Domination…
May: Mon, 20 — If the Various Biographies of Revolt…
May: Sat, 18 — Before Becoming an Obsession…
May: Thu, 16 — Atheism Has Led Modern Man to Such Extreme…
May: Wed, 15 — What Destroys the Pride of Academics
May: Tue, 14 — It Is the Daily and Lifelong Effort…
May: Mon, 13 — There Comes a Time When Social Criticism
May: Fri, 10 — The Great Literature Has a Fundamental Link With Reality
May: Thu, 9 — The Essential Role of Literature
May: Wed, 8 — The Study of History Is Unpleasant
May: Tue, 7 — Again the Remorse
May: Mon, 6 — When We Analyze These Inevitable Breakups…
May: Thu, 2 — Keeping Expectations Low, Living Modestly…
May: Wed, 1 — The Unspoken Truth of Literary Criticism
April: Tue, 30 — The Radical Decision of Cioran
April: Mon, 29 — Disappointment Is Always Proportional to Expectation
April: Fri, 26 — Life Really Is an Endless Cycle of Frustration
April: Thu, 25 — We Must Go Back and Back to the Dhammapada
April: Wed, 24 — Every Virtuous Relationship That Can Exist…
April: Tue, 23 — Societies Have to Revalidate the Foundations…
April: Mon, 22 — The Writer Whose Life Is Involuntarily Invaded…
April: Fri, 19 — It Is True That Study Often Uncovers…
April: Thu, 18 — There Is Always Something Very Positive…
April: Wed, 17 — More Curious Than Examples Like Baudelaire’s…
April: Tue, 16 — Poetry Is Not Enough on Its Own
April: Mon, 15 — The Classic, Most Frequent and Most Shared Drama…
April: Fri, 12 — This Instinctive Repulsion…
April: Thu, 11 — The History of Literature Resembles a Pendulum
April: Wed, 10 — Most of the Obstacles to Creation…
April: Tue, 9 — After Setting Up an Efficient Creative Process…
April: Mon, 8 — “Cosa odiosissima è il parlar molto di se”
April: Fri, 5 — Nothing Is More Destructive to the Conscience…
April: Thu, 4 — No Virtue Can Flourish Without…
April: Wed, 3 — The Cult of Form Can Only Occur…
April: Tue, 2 — This Thing of Attributing Heroism to Depraved Murderers…
April: Mon, 1 — Faced With the Possibility of Near Death…
March: Fri, 29 — This Behavioral Tendency of Man Towards…
March: Thu, 28 — It Has Already Been Noted That Great Authors…
March: Wed, 27 — What Enchants in Provençal Poetry…
March: Tue, 26 — The Right to Disturb
March: Mon, 25 — Sometimes It Is Amusing to Imagine…
March: Fri, 22 — Although It Is Undoubtedly Not Professional…
March: Thu, 21 — What Often Goes Unnoticed
March: Wed, 20 — The Great Moment of Fiction Reading
March: Mon, 18 — Although Spiritism Has Certainly…
March: Fri, 15 — Daily Work, Motivated and Disciplined…
March: Thu, 14 — The Phonic and Syntactic Richness of Portuguese
March: Wed, 13 — All Real Modern Problems…
March: Tue, 12 — It Is Impressive to Note the Ever-Present Interest…
March: Mon, 11 — An In-Depth Study of Western and Eastern Religions…
March: Fri, 8 — Tyranny Only Wins When the Fear It Instills…
March: Thu, 7 — Belief Surpasses Disbelief
March: Wed, 6 — As Long as There Is Conscience…
March: Mon, 4 — The Extremes to Which Vanity Throws the Spirit
March: Fri, 1 — This Sympathy That Springs Up…
February: Thu, 29 — In the Face of Every Impossible Achievement…
February: Wed, 28 — Skepticism Contains One of These Curious Paradoxes…
February: Tue, 27 — Motivation Is Tempered and Hardened by Patience
February: Mon, 26 — The Devil Really Is That “Just a Little Bit”
February: Fri, 23 — No Philosophy and No Religion…
February: Thu, 22 — Once, a Few Years Ago…
February: Wed, 21 — Tolstoy and Dostoevsky’s Superiority
February: Tue, 20 — What Makes the Germanic Genius So Curious…
February: Fri, 16 — It Is Always Automatic to Opt for the Least Effort
February: Thu, 15 — Literary Idolatry Endures and Ceases Just Like All the Others
February: Wed, 14 — In the Phenomenon of Psychography…
February: Tue, 13 — Only Two Pleasurable Moments
February: Mon, 12 — There Are Ideas That Mature and Ideas That Time Makes Rot
February: Fri, 9 — Patriotism and Anti-Patriotism
February: Thu, 8 — The Practical Man and the Thinking Man
February: Wed, 7 — The Real Student Is the Teacher
February: Mon, 5 — The Countless Facilities That Are Available Today…
February: Fri, 2 — Learning a Language Is a Matter of Hours of Study
January: Wed, 31 — The Problem With Utilitarian Man
January: Mon, 29 — The Rational Foundations of Common Sense
January: Thu, 25 — Religion Is Almost Always the Basis…
January: Wed, 24 — Hypocrisy Is the Substance of Public Morality
January: Tue, 23 — Moralism Is Indispensable
January: Mon, 22 — Language Is Ingrained in Thought Itself
January: Wed, 17 — He Who Wants to Teach…
January: Tue, 16 — An Irrefutable Logical Exposition
January: Mon, 15 — The Antithesis of Dominant Thought
January: Thu, 11 — The Old Scholars
January: Wed, 10 — Two Basic Postures
January: Tue, 9 — Auto da Fé, by Elias Canetti
January: Mon, 8 — Brazilian Literature Is Already Relevant Worldwide
January: Fri, 5 — To revisit Carpeaux
January: Wed, 3 — Only Bad News Can Restore Reason
January: Tue, 2 — Much Less Impressive Is the Impact of Death…

2023 (217)

November: Thu, 30 — Another Year Goes
November: Wed, 29 — To Look Back and Smile
November: Tue, 28 — With Thermometers Hovering Around Forty Degrees…
November: Mon, 27 — A Personal Purpose
November: Fri, 24 — Vary the Style
November: Thu, 23 — Thre Green
November: Wed, 22 — Nothing Replaces the Benefits of Continuous…
November: Tue, 21 — Many Defects Are Tolerated…
November: Mon, 20 — Despite the Apparent Increase in Complexity
November: Fri, 17 — When a Draft Is Lost…
November: Thu, 16 — The Beginner Praises Easily
November: Wed, 15 — True Artists and True Philosophers…
November: Tue, 14 — Twentieth-Century Literature Discovered…
November: Mon, 13 — Brazilian Modernism
November: Fri, 10 — “Misanthropy Is Limited to Men”
November: Thu, 9 — In Literature, It Is Just as Useful to Vary the Style
November: Wed, 8 — How to Deal With Envy
November: Tue, 7 — The True Personality
November: Mon, 6 — The Writer Is Mistaken in Assuming…
November: Fri, 3 — Maturity Is Perhaps Notable for Being…
November: Wed, 1 — The Noblest Task of Literary Critics…
October: Thu, 26 — As Much Fun as It Is to Consciously Violate…
October: Wed, 25 — It Takes a While for an Artist to Discover…
October: Tue, 24 — It Should Be Enough for Man…
October: Fri, 20 — The Greatest Incentive to Literary Fruitfulness
October: Thu, 19 — The Artist Should Never Rely…
October: Wed, 18 — There Is, in Fact, a Satisfaction Experienced
October: Tue, 17 — The Possibility of Closing a Book
October: Mon, 16 — The Intellectual Dies the Moment…
October: Fri, 13 — What the Latest Artificial Intelligence Does
October: Tue, 10 — There Are Age Groups in Which the Accumulation…
October: Mon, 9 — Every Profession Requires Something Beyond…
October: Fri, 6 — The Beginning
October: Thu, 5 — When Faced With What He Does Not Know
October: Wed, 4 — When We Investigate Mystical Traditions…
October: Tue, 3 — One Genuinely Brazilian Element
October: Mon, 2 — Any Philosophy That Focuses on Individuality…
September: Fri, 29 — A Solid Knowledge of Man
September: Thu, 28 — Creative Work
September: Wed, 27 — No Matter How Good Short Poems Are
September: Tue, 26 — A Near Reality
September: Mon, 25 — Nothing Seems as Impressive…
September: Fri, 22 — Poetry Should Not Be Sung
September: Thu, 21 — The Obligatory Pause at the End of the Verse
September: Wed, 20 — Solzhenitsyn’s Badges
September: Tue, 19 — Man Becomes What He Feeds
September: Mon, 18 — Planning Is Always More Stimulating Than Acting
September: Fri, 15 — When, Four Years Ago…
September: Thu, 14 — Another Little Volume…
September: Wed, 13 — By Himself, Man Is Nothing
September: Tue, 12 — Fiber and Resilience
September: Mon, 11 — The Man Who Deprives Himself…
September: Fri, 8 — There Is Only One Relevant Parameter
September: Thu, 7 — The Spiritualist Movement
September: Wed, 6 — The Postulate From Which the Bulk…
September: Tue, 5 — The Courage of Some Doctors
September: Mon, 4 — If a Large Part of the Personality Is Made Up…
September: Fri, 1 — It Will Be a Beautiful Day
August: Thu, 31 — Something That Modernity Has Facilitated…
August: Wed, 30 — It Is Always Moving When We See…
August: Tue, 29 — It Does Not Seem Possible for This Process…
August: Mon, 28 — When a New Idea Is Born…
August: Fri, 25 — There Is an Amusing Irony in Noting That…
August: Thu, 24 — Totalitarianisms Are Not Political Ideologies
August: Wed, 23 — The Communist Experiment
August: Tue, 22 — The Morning Is the Most Important Time of the Day
August: Mon, 21 — The Best Solution to Overcome…
August: Wed, 16 — Despite All the Inherent Affliction of Writing…
August: Tue, 15 — There Is Something Overtly Invasive…
August: Mon, 14 — A Great Writer Does Not Write…
August: Fri, 11 — Anyone Whose Dream Is the Establishment…
August: Thu, 10 — The Average Person Would Only Become Aware…
August: Wed, 9 — Two Sincere Writers Should Cultivate…
August: Tue, 8 — Comfort Stimulates Inertia
August: Fri, 4 — A Generation Never Learns From the Past
August: Thu, 3 — There Is No More Thankless Task Than to Teach…
August: Tue, 1 — The Writer Is Lost If He Does Not Feel…
July: Mon, 31 — If Anything Has Been Achieved…
July: Fri, 28 — What Is Most Difficult and Dangerous…
July: Thu, 27 — Although Simplifications Such as Manichaeism…
July: Wed, 26 — Virtue Is Simple and Vice Complex
July: Tue, 25 — It Is Beneficial for the Moralist…
July: Mon, 24 — What Writing Provides
July: Fri, 21 — He Who Gets Used to Writing Seriously…
July: Thu, 20 — Writing Impairs the Memory
July: Wed, 19 — The Dungeons of Thought
July: Tue, 18 — When the Style Is Imposing and Pleasing
July: Mon, 17 — Perhaps the Importance of That Mysterious Something…
July: Fri, 14 — There Is No Maturity or Experience Capable…
July: Tue, 11 — The Most Challenging Exercise
July: Mon, 10 — Laughter Really Seems to Be the Superior
July: Fri, 7 — The Merit of Detaching…
July: Thu, 6 — Would Go to Jail
July: Wed, 5 — Information Warfare
July: Mon, 3 — Less the Man Than His State of Nerves
June: Fri, 30 — What the Reader Seeks
June: Thu, 29 — Originality Achieves Recognition More Quickly
June: Wed, 28 — It Is Necessary to Write Regularly
June: Tue, 27 — Change Can Be Better Understood When…
June: Mon, 26 — All This Affliction Experienced by the Serious Writer…
June: Wed, 21 — Detaching From the World Does Not Mean…
June: Tue, 20 — It Would Certainly Be Interesting Today for Philosophy…
June: Mon, 19 — The Emptying of the Meaning of Words
June: Wed, 14 — Ecclesiastes Is Eternal
June: Tue, 13 — The Revenge of the Common Man
June: Mon, 12 — The Pontiffs of Human Lucidity
June: Fri, 9 — The Philosopher Who Cannot Teach…
June: Thu, 8 — It Is Possible to Draw Parallels…
June: Wed, 7 — If Language Is Authentic, It Can Never Be Imitated
June: Tue, 6 — If a People Had No Distinctive Features
June: Mon, 5 — There Are Sentences That Are Worth More Than Books
June: Thu, 1 — It Is Always Dangerous for the Artist
May: Wed, 31 — What Kills Man Is Pride
May: Tue, 30 — The More One Understands About Life…
May: Mon, 29 — He Who Realizes That Time Is the Substance…
May: Fri, 26 — There Is an Insurmountable Distance…
May: Thu, 25 — We Give More Value to Works That…
May: Wed, 24 — Even If They Seem Full of Absurdities…
May: Tue, 23 — Early Adulthood
May: Mon, 22 — One Avoids Much Frustration…
May: Thu, 18 — What Never Fails to Impress…
May: Wed, 17 — It Is Notorious That the So-Called…
May: Tue, 16 — From the Point of View of Character Formation…
May: Mon, 15 — If It Is Necessary for the Writer to Establish a Link…
May: Fri, 12 — Inaccurate Definitions
May: Thu, 11 — If Something Is Published, It Will Be Read
May: Wed, 10 — Perhaps There Is No More Pleasurable Feeling…
May: Tue, 9 — Those Who Are Impressed by the Power of Love…
May: Mon, 8 — Great Art Springs From a Non-Artistic Motivation
May: Fri, 5 — The Church of Misanthropy
May: Thu, 4 — A Person With Some Education…
May: Wed, 3 — Doctor Faustus, by Thomas Mann
May: Tue, 2 — Moralism Is the First Step
May: Mon, 1 — Technicism, in Literature, Is Only to Be Tolerated…
April: Fri, 28 — It Is Strange to Note the Absolute Irrationality…
April: Thu, 27 — It Is Only Possible to Progress Spiritually…
April: Wed, 26 — It Is Very Difficult Not to Get Carried Away…
April: Tue, 25 — It Is True That the Last Two Centuries…
April: Mon, 24 — Life Would Be Fairer…
April: Fri, 21 — Dedicating to Shoes
April: Thu, 20 — The Affliction of the Intellectual
April: Wed, 19 — It Is Always Beautiful to Dedicate Oneself to Lost Causes
April: Mon, 17 — Fun and Luck
April: Fri, 14 — The Role of Creativity in a Work
April: Thu, 13 — Those Moments When the Mind Unleashes…
April: Wed, 12 — The Representation of Reality
April: Tue, 11 — What Is Most Dear and Worthy
April: Mon, 10 — Pessoa: A Biography, by Richard Zenith
April: Fri, 7 — Essential Themes
April: Thu, 6 — Despite the Pessimism
April: Wed, 5 — An Illusion, Whenever Destroyed…
April: Tue, 4 — Concessions to the Practical World
April: Mon, 3 — It Is Very Difficult to Judge the Inconsequential Artist
March: Fri, 31 — It Seems Almost a Crime…
March: Thu, 30 — This Is the Kind of Attitude!
March: Wed, 29 — There Are No More Despicable Human Models…
March: Tue, 28 — Few Things Are as Delightful…
March: Mon, 27 — Literature Does Not Need Readers
March: Fri, 24 — The Flame of Vocation
March: Thu, 23 — There Is Nothing More Comfortable for the Inconsequent…
March: Wed, 22 — The Intelligence That Is Manifested by the Style
March: Tue, 21 — Alcohol and Art
March: Mon, 20 — Thank You, God!
March: Fri, 17 — It Is Interesting to Observe the Phenomenon…
March: Thu, 16 — The Assault on Freedom of Thought
March: Wed, 15 — Perhaps Nothing Would Be as Beneficial…
March: Tue, 14 — The intellectual trajectory of Hermann Hesse
March: Mon, 13 — The Glass Bead Game, by Hermann Hesse
March: Fri, 10 — It Is Truly Amazing How Far Modern Psychiatry…
March: Thu, 9 — One Cannot Help But Be Struck…
March: Wed, 8 — There Are Veiled Implications in the Personality…
March: Tue, 7 — There Is a Flagrant Injustice…
March: Mon, 6 — He Who Sinks His Teeth Into Stoicism…
March: Fri, 3 — There Is Nothing Less Poetic and Divine Than Remorse
March: Thu, 2 — Once Absorbed, Schopenhauer’s Philosophy…
March: Wed, 1 — Five Centuries of Genealogy
February: Tue, 28 — Bocage’s Burlesque Verses
February: Mon, 27 — The Moralist Is Someone Who Swallows Stones
February: Fri, 24 — There Must Be a Difference…
February: Thu, 23 — Bandeira’s Fundamental Criticism
February: Wed, 22 — Man Should Be Forbidden the Possibility…
February: Tue, 21 — Any Work Is Bearable…
February: Mon, 20 — When Is Destroyed That Which for Centuries…
February: Fri, 17 — Proudhon’s Revolt
February: Thu, 16 — To Be Governed
February: Wed, 15 — The True and the Artificial
February: Tue, 14 — Artistic Innovations
February: Mon, 13 — Spiritual Charlatans
February: Thu, 9 — Always Unpleasant…
February: Wed, 8 — Stupor in the Face of the Cultural Destruction
February: Tue, 7 — Freedom in Discipline
February: Mon, 6 — Regularity and Dynamism
February: Fri, 3 — Although Censorship Is an Unspeakable Cruelty…
February: Thu, 2 — It Is Curious That Laws Are Widely Respected
February: Wed, 1 — Anarchism Is Noble
January: Tue, 31 — Modern Democracies
January: Mon, 30 — Having a “Cause” and Wanting to Impose It
January: Fri, 27 — Antero Again…
January: Thu, 26 — Running Over Laziness
January: Wed, 25 — The Temple of Literary Glory
January: Tue, 24 — It Is the Stones that Define the Value
January: Mon, 23 — The Artist Individualizes Himself in the Expression
January: Fri, 20 — Again the “Creative Block”
January: Thu, 19 — At the Same Time that Prudence…
January: Wed, 18 — The Harbinger of the Fall
January: Tue, 17 — My First Wife, by Jakob Wassermann
January: Mon, 16 — El Árbol de la Ciencia, by Pío Baroja
January: Fri, 13 — Making Good Verses Is Hard
January: Thu, 12 — The Modern Obsession With Sexuality
January: Wed, 11 — The Modern Poet, Adept at the Fashionable…
January: Tue, 10 — The Evolution of Manuel Bandeira’s Poetry
January: Mon, 9 — Academic Analysis of Poems
January: Fri, 6 — Going Back to the Past
January: Thu, 5 — Freud’s Cell
January: Wed, 4 — Teaching Patients How to Live
January: Tue, 3 — The Poem Seems to Lack a Support
January: Mon, 2 — Tower Effects

2022 (228)

November: Wed, 30 — Language Offers Everyone Identical Possibilities
November: Tue, 29 — If We Have Form as a Means…
November: Mon, 28 — We Read a Handful of Coeval Poems…
November: Fri, 25 — It Is Admirable to See the Author Who Interweaves…
November: Thu, 24 — Even Though One May Live Thoughtfully…
November: Wed, 23 — Economics Seems Like a Problem So Logical…
November: Tue, 22 — The Use of Ink and Paper
November: Mon, 21 — The Moments When the Mind Turns…
November: Fri, 18 — There Is Nothing More Boring to the Modern Reader…
November: Thu, 17 — The Futile Appreciator of “Beauty”
November: Wed, 16 — There Is Something Really Beautiful in the Process of Creation…
November: Tue, 15 — My Best Humor…
November: Mon, 14 — The Wronged Who Remain Silent
November: Fri, 11 — There Is a Curious Vacuum…
November: Thu, 10 — The Concrete Wall
November: Wed, 9 — Finally…
November: Tue, 8 — The Ostensible Culture War in Force…
November: Mon, 7 — Envy Is Invincible
November: Fri, 4 — Life Only Seems Monotonous…
November: Thu, 3 — Art, in Its Most Authentic Manifestation, is the Expression…
November: Tue, 1 — On the Threshold Between Cowardice and Courage
October: Mon, 31 — The Freedom to Think
October: Fri, 28 — Honor Claims Civil Disobedience
October: Thu, 27 — There Is a Tension that Precedes Moments Known to Be “Important”…
October: Wed, 26 — Traditions and Crisis
October: Tue, 25 — There Is Nothing More Ridiculous Than the Importation of Cultural Garbage…
October: Mon, 24 — A Whole Year to Weave a Handful of Verses!
October: Fri, 21 — The Design of the “Great Work”
October: Wed, 19 — The Political Agitators of Past Eras
October: Tue, 18 — Once the Custom of the Concise…
October: Thu, 13 — Jung’s “Intuition”
October: Wed, 12 — Although It Is Very Interesting to Note…
October: Tue, 11 — The Psychological Mechanism That Is the Precursor…
October: Fri, 7 — Latin Syntactic Flexibility
October: Thu, 6 — There Is No Doubt That It Was and Has Been Deleterious…
October: Wed, 5 — At Some Point in History, the Press Discovered…
October: Tue, 4 — The Jungian Approach to Dream Interpretation…
October: Mon, 3 — There Is Something Truly Brilliant About Gilberto Freyre
September: Fri, 30 — A Drastic Psychosocial Change Has Occurred in Brazil…
September: Thu, 29 — There Is Something Brilliant and Very Curious in Symbolism
September: Wed, 28 — The Slaves of the Past
September: Tue, 27 — Is Rhyme Indispensable?
September: Mon, 26 — The Difference Between the Works of Jung and Frankl…
September: Fri, 23 — The Taoist Perspective
September: Thu, 22 — Everything Indicates That I Will Complete a Full Year…
September: Wed, 21 — Modern Psychology, Taking Away Man’s Autonomy…
September: Tue, 20 — The Great Genius Most Often Lives Hindered
September: Mon, 19 — Just as Machado’s Irony…
September: Fri, 16 — The Development of Personality, by Carl Jung
September: Wed, 14 — It Is Indeed a Pleasure to Find in Authors…
September: Tue, 13 — In Portuguese, the Beauty and Precision of the Speech…
September: Mon, 12 — Marriage Is the Death of Lyric-Love Poetry
September: Fri, 9 — Christianity Is the Main Barrier to Collectivism
September: Thu, 8 — Although Historically Pessimism Has…
September: Wed, 7 — Demons Became a Masterpiece…
September: Tue, 6 — It Is Very Difficult, Today, Not to Sympathize…
September: Mon, 5 — The Investigation of the Origin of Political Ideologies…
September: Fri, 2 — It Seems Certain That, One Day, Brazil Will Make…
September: Thu, 1 — It Was Great Artists Who Ran the Theaters
August: Wed, 31 — The Artist Who Worries Too Much…
August: Tue, 30 — The Impression One Gets After Reading…
August: Mon, 29 — Nocturnal Minds
August: Fri, 26 — Children Deluded by the Futile
August: Thu, 25 — Intolerance of Small Mistakes…
August: Tue, 23 — There Are Many Advantages to Publishing Small Volumes…
August: Mon, 22 — The “Headquarters of Noise”
August: Thu, 18 — Productive Afflictions
August: Wed, 17 — The Man Whose Life Expresses His Inner Motivation…
August: Tue, 16 — The Reclusive Man, Accustomed to Silence…
August: Mon, 15 — To Develop Spiritually…
August: Fri, 12 — Vigny and I
August: Thu, 11 — If the Sorrow and the Character Are Truly Great
August: Wed, 10 — It Is Impossible for a Moralist Not to Look Bitter
August: Tue, 9 — It Is in the Moments When the Spirit Gives in…
August: Mon, 8 — Vigny and Kafka
August: Fri, 5 — Although the Eastern Explanations for the Extreme…
August: Thu, 4 — The Poet Easily Becomes a Good Prose Writer
August: Wed, 3 — Verlaine Seems Like a Dostoievskian Character
August: Tue, 2 — Miraculously Special
August: Mon, 1 — Let Them Come Out as the Mirror of the State…
July: Fri, 29 — For the Beginning Artist, It Is Intimidating to Find Himself…
July: Thu, 28 — The Difficult Thing in Art Is to Make Intelligent Use of It…
July: Wed, 27 — Ancient Philosophers…
July: Tue, 26 — Taking Life Too Seriously
July: Mon, 25 — An Inexplicable Feeling of Duty Haunts Me…
July: Fri, 22 — In This Age Where There Are More Voices Than Ears…
July: Thu, 21 — It Is Curious to Note That Many Great Artists…
July: Wed, 20 — A Continuous Exercise of Patience
July: Tue, 19 — The Human Brain Always Ends Up Humiliated
July: Mon, 18 — Every Artist Has Inclinations and Deficiencies
July: Fri, 15 — I Never Cease to Be Impressed…
July: Thu, 14 — The Idea of the University and the Ideas of the Middle Classes
July: Wed, 13 — It Is a Formidable Audacity That Money…
July: Tue, 12 — Eckermann’s Goethe
July: Mon, 11 — Conversations of Goethe, by Eckermann
July: Fri, 8 — The Bon-Vivant Artist
July: Thu, 7 — Carpeaux e Burckhardt
July: Wed, 6 — The “Popularization” of Science
July: Tue, 5 — There Should Be a Name for the Feeling of Affection….
July: Mon, 4 — A Love Disappointment Affects, More Often Than Not…
July: Fri, 1 — The Drama of D. Pedro II Is the Drama of a Camões
June: Thu, 30 — It Is Truly Amazing How the Years…
June: Wed, 29 — Mastery in an Occupation Is Conditioned to the Starting Point
June: Tue, 28 — To Be Normal…
June: Mon, 27 — Psychology Ended Up Sinking…
June: Fri, 24 — The Independence at Stake
June: Thu, 23 — Modern Psychiatry, Invading the Terrain of Philosophy…
June: Wed, 22 — My Disease
June: Tue, 21 — A Whisper
June: Mon, 20 — The New Philosophies of “Indulgence”
June: Fri, 17 — Very Low Level
June: Thu, 16 — Modern Man Works
June: Wed, 15 — Simple Roadmap
June: Tue, 14 — I Go Through Several of Osho’s Speeches…
June: Mon, 13 — In Sequential Tonics…
June: Fri, 10 — It Is Remarkable How Many Writers Have Broken Away….
June: Thu, 9 — Although It Is Useful to Try to Attribute Meaning…
June: Wed, 8 — Rhythmic Disturbances
June: Tue, 7 — It Is Not Fair to Demand From a Quadruped the Understanding of an Antero
June: Mon, 6 — Voltaire, More Than Anyone, Had to Believe…
June: Fri, 3 — The Writer Can Sleep Even on the Floor…
June: Thu, 2 — The Utopian Character of the Unique Possibility of Social Harmony
June: Wed, 1 — Religious Practice Loses Its Nobility When…
May: Tue, 31 — The Creation of Imaginary Friends
May: Mon, 30 — It Seems That the Traits Placed by Dostoevsky…
May: Fri, 27 — The Full Objectivation Operated by Modernity…
May: Thu, 26 — Although Much Is to Be Gained and Something Can Be Learned…
May: Wed, 25 — Happy Are Those Who Discover…
May: Tue, 24 — Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens
May: Mon, 23 — Gradations of Mental Manifestations
May: Fri, 20 — Jonathan Swift’s Irony
May: Thu, 19 — The Most Enchanting of Mermaids
May: Wed, 18 — No Matter How Much One Idealizes Style and Form…
May: Tue, 17 — Exercicios espirituales, by Ignatius of Loyola
May: Mon, 16 — The Biography of Ignatius of Loyola
May: Fri, 13 — A Work That Does Not Sketch…
May: Thu, 12 — Victor Hugo’s Fecundity
May: Wed, 11 — There Are Few Exercises as Healthy…
May: Tue, 10 — The Higher Spirit, the More It Develops…
May: Mon, 9 — It Is Not Fair to Condemn Freud…
May: Fri, 6 — Various Doctrines Throughout History…
May: Thu, 5 — It Is Really Admirable the Way Swami Vivekananda…
May: Wed, 4 — For All the Times I Have Laughed…
May: Tue, 3 — Anger, Anger…
May: Mon, 2 — Enough With the Psychoanalysis!
April: Fri, 29 — Molding Oneself Psychologically
April: Thu, 28 — Most Modern “Discoveries” Have Nothing to Do With Discoveries
April: Wed, 27 — The Best Decisions Come After Long Meditation…
April: Tue, 26 — The Western Specialist
April: Mon, 25 — Neuroscience and Art
April: Fri, 22 — Identical Mental Stimulation Mechanism
April: Thu, 21 — Religions Have Always Thrived in the Midst of Intense Conflict
April: Wed, 20 — Vocation Demands Regular Affirmations
April: Tue, 19 — When Certainty Is Not Possible
April: Mon, 18 — However Irrational and Uncomfortable It May Be…
April: Fri, 15 — The Multiplicity
April: Thu, 14 — Written Lines Are the Record in Time of Lasting Impressions or Not
April: Tue, 12 — Timeless Themes
April: Mon, 11 — The Nobility of Speculative Philosophy
April: Fri, 8 — Unpalatable Reasoning
April: Thu, 7 — Filosofias da afirmação e da negação, by Mário Ferreira dos Santos
April: Wed, 6 — Commitment Set in Stone
April: Tue, 5 — The Prose of Thomas Aquinas
April: Mon, 4 — Sobre Deus, by Mário Ferreira dos Santos
April: Fri, 1 — Hegel’s Conclusions
March: Thu, 31 — The Noble Conscience
March: Wed, 30 — The Spirit Inclined to Attachment
March: Tue, 29 — It Is Incredible How Far Away From Reality…
March: Mon, 28 — Sadness Manifests Itself, Bears Fruit and Endures…
March: Fri, 25 — It Would Not Be Fair to Compare Hegel…
March: Thu, 24 — Fun Mental Exercise
March: Wed, 23 — Conviviality Is a Wicked Lady
March: Tue, 22 — A Higher Conception of Existence
March: Mon, 21 — Ah, If I Wanted to Be Part of a Club…
March: Fri, 18 — Antero de Quental and Cesare Pavese
March: Thu, 17 — The Flower With Black Petals
March: Wed, 16 — The Old Debate
March: Tue, 15 — The Poetry of Antero de Quental
March: Mon, 14 — Os Sonetos Completos, by Antero de Quental
March: Fri, 11 — Regrets and Maturity
March: Thu, 10 — The Emissaries of Good Sense
March: Wed, 9 — It Is Fabulous to Note That the Ordinary Man…
March: Tue, 8 — Each Epoch Has a Peculiar Pair of Lenses
March: Fri, 4 — The Greatest Human Creation of All Time
March: Thu, 3 — Frankl, Jung and Freud
March: Wed, 2 — The Common Man Places the Meaning of His Own Existence…
March: Tue, 1 — The Contrast Between Buddhism and Christianity
February: Mon, 28 — The Path to Enlightenment
February: Fri, 25 — The “Delirious Morbidity of a Fakir”
February: Thu, 24 — Mulamadhyamakakarika, by Nagarjuna
February: Wed, 23 — Someone Like Nietzsche Can Only Be Appreciated…
February: Tue, 22 — “No Man Is an Island”
February: Mon, 21 — Buddhism Is Probably Right…
February: Fri, 18 — An Effect That Is Difficult to Match
February: Thu, 17 — An Enemy of the People, by Henrik Ibsen
February: Wed, 16 — The Great Drama of the One Whose Life Is Filled…
February: Tue, 15 — Whoever Targets Big Enterprises, Has to Start With the Small Ones
February: Mon, 14 — The Reading of Mystics
February: Fri, 11 — Future Note
February: Thu, 10 — Sterility and Merit
February: Wed, 9 — Fame Never Fails to Chain and Corrupt
February: Tue, 8 — Models and Identification
February: Mon, 7 — Great Artists Always Survive
February: Fri, 4 — Literature Is an Answer
February: Thu, 3 — To Live Is to Believe the Lie
February: Wed, 2 — “Heroes” Worthy of Contempt
February: Tue, 1 — Reality Reduced to Misery
January: Mon, 31 — This Business of Living, by Cesare Pavese
January: Fri, 28 — The Moment When Destiny Makes Its Call
January: Thu, 27 — The Artist Must Use All the Means at His Disposal…
January: Wed, 26 — The Realization of the Fragility of Life
January: Tue, 25 — Nelson Rodrigues Is One of the Rare Brazilian Authors…
January: Mon, 24 — More About Dostoevsky’s Style…
January: Fri, 21 — There Is No Control Over the Environment
January: Thu, 20 — The Lesson of Dostoevsky
January: Wed, 19 — Aesthetic Variations…
January: Tue, 18 — Wonders of This Century
January: Mon, 17 — The Verses of Augusto dos Anjos
January: Fri, 14 — Metaphysical Speculations
January: Thu, 13 — Orthographic Reforms
January: Wed, 12 — The Future Is a Hypothesis
January: Tue, 11 — The State of Mind That Favors Good Manifestations…
January: Mon, 10 — Perhaps Mozart Was the Most Genuine and Genial Artist
January: Fri, 7 — A Top Orchestra Is Almost a Cultural Salvation
January: Thu, 6 — Freedom From One’s Own Ideas
January: Wed, 5 — The Ideal Reader
January: Tue, 4 — There Is No Vain Page in Tolstoy
January: Mon, 3 — A Problem Is a Problem as Long as the Mind Classifies It as Such

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November: Fri, 26 — The Gruesome Details of a Black Magic Ritual
November: Thu, 25 — The Existential Puzzle
November: Wed, 24 — Modern Occultism
November: Tue, 23 — Poetry Is a Musical Construction
November: Mon, 22 — There Seems to Be a Consensus that a Poem Should Be Recited as Prose
November: Fri, 19 — Routine and Planning
November: Thu, 18 — It Seems Necessary to Sketch Answers
November: Wed, 17 — Literature, to Be Enjoyable…
November: Tue, 16 — A Reading Destroyed by a Translator
November: Mon, 15 — Meditating With Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra
November: Fri, 12 — Schopenhauer’s Sleep
November: Thu, 11 — A Single Accurate Verse Saves the Day
November: Wed, 10 — Nietzsche’s Grandiose Madness
November: Tue, 9 — “Bravery Is to Fight a Lost War!”
November: Mon, 8 — The Poetry of Gonçalves Dias
November: Sat, 6 — The Tragedy of Anarchist Thought
November: Thu, 4 — Nihilism and Anarchism
November: Wed, 3 — Capitalism Has Imposed a Behavioral Philosophy…
November: Tue, 2 — Peace Is the Joint Neutralization of Will and Feeling
November: Mon, 1 — An Unmatched Feat!
October: Fri, 29 — What Is Most Annoying About Agnosticism
October: Thu, 28 — Portuguese and English
October: Wed, 27 — The Mind, If Not Controlled, Withers Away
October: Tue, 26 — Reticences…
October: Mon, 25 — A List of Next Readings Only Grows
October: Fri, 22 — Psychology Will Only Come Close to a Reasonable Definition…
October: Thu, 21 — “I Will Not Die Today”…
October: Wed, 20 — Ancient Eastern Texts and Modern Psychology
October: Tue, 19 — Nothing Clutters the Mind Like a Fit of Rage
October: Mon, 18 — The Artist Becomes What He Is Able to Represent
October: Fri, 15 — There Is No Higher Perception Than That of Impermanence
October: Thu, 14 — Eastern Tradition Emphasizes the Need for a Spiritual Master
October: Wed, 13 — Savage Lands…
October: Tue, 12 — Having No Companies, It Is Better to Walk Alone
October: Mon, 11 — The Demonic Man, According to the Bhagavad Gita
October: Fri, 8 — By What He Does, One Man Can Be Distinguished From Another
October: Thu, 7 — Man and His Circumstance
October: Wed, 6 — Declensions and Buddha
October: Tue, 5 — Knowing English Is a Duty of the Modern Intellectual
October: Mon, 4 — Democracy: the Factory of Cowards
October: Fri, 1 — A Psychology That Submits the Unconscious to External Stimuli
September: Thu, 30 — The Professional Writer Is Obliged to Have a Pen at Hand
September: Wed, 29 — The History of Great Men Who Stood Out From the Crowd
September: Tue, 28 — It Is Curious How Kierkegaard, a Prolix Writer…
September: Mon, 27 — Nostalgia of the Dueling Days
September: Fri, 24 — The Distinction of Music
September: Thu, 23 — Power Is Always the Reflection of a Relationship of Domination
September: Wed, 22 — Evolution Demands a Rupture and an Expansion of the Horizon
September: Tue, 21 — The State is an Odious Tyrannical Machine
September: Mon, 20 — Every Artist Should Yearn for Anonymity
September: Fri, 17 — Buddhism Is Drop Everything and Live on Alms
September: Thu, 16 — An Evolutionary Process Where the False Perishes
September: Wed, 15 — Society Has Become Radically More Cynical
September: Tue, 14 — The Ever Corrupting and Oppressive Effects of Group Psychology
September: Mon, 13 — What Is Universal in the Human Being
September: Fri, 10 — From History to Metaphysics…
September: Thu, 9 — The Irony of Rational Thought Is That It Tacitly Demands a Conclusion
September: Wed, 8 — The Discomfort of Existing
September: Tue, 7 — The Writer Who Would Dare to Create a Character Like Jakob Boehme…
September: Mon, 6 — The Pages of Jakob Boehme
September: Fri, 3 — If There Really Is a Hell in Which Hypocrites Suffer…
September: Thu, 2 — Swedenborg’s Visions of Heaven and Hell
September: Wed, 1 — According to Swedenborg, I Will Not Be Accepted Into Heaven
August: Tue, 31 — The Obsession With Reasoning From Every Possible Angle Is the Death…
August: Mon, 30 — Morally Man Measures Himself Less by His Affinities…
August: Fri, 27 — Building a Fragmentary Work
August: Thu, 26 — Thomas Carlyle’s Lectures
August: Wed, 25 — Nelson Rodrigues’ Way of Constructing Prose
August: Tue, 24 — An Honorable Man, Aware of His Own Dignity
August: Mon, 23 — Old Age, Disease and Death…
August: Fri, 20 — Buddhism Is a Religion for the Wise
August: Thu, 19 — Thomas Carlyle on Mohammed
August: Wed, 18 — The Language of the Dhammapada
August: Tue, 17 — A Play and Sixty Short Stories by Force
August: Mon, 16 — A Spectacular Scene!
August: Fri, 13 — Friday!
August: Thu, 12 — Notebooks, by Emil Cioran
August: Wed, 11 — Words of Order and Words of Hate
August: Tue, 10 — The Contrast Between Ancient and Modern Texts
August: Mon, 9 — Joy and Sorrow
August: Sat, 7 — Being Cultured Involves Understanding That the World Is Old, Vast and Plural
August: Sat, 7 — The Optimist Lacks a Sense of Humor
August: Thu, 5 — Everything That Is Alive Dies…
August: Tue, 3 — Loftiness Manifests Itself, Above All, in Adversity
August: Mon, 2 — The Best Narrative Requires Methodical Structuring
July: Thu, 29 — The Image We Make of Authors and Works Comes to Life and Moves
July: Wed, 28 — “I Believe in the Future of Mankind”
July: Tue, 27 — How Is It Possible?
July: Mon, 26 — The Man Assumes Himself to Be Unfair, but Never Unintelligent
July: Fri, 23 — Camões Is The Lusiads
July: Thu, 22 — The Most Striking Impact of Modernity on Philosophy
July: Wed, 21 — Hope Is Idealized Only by Those Who Have Never Seen It in Its Fullness
July: Tue, 20 — The Literary Belief, Beautiful and Silent…
July: Mon, 19 — The Charm Always Disappears When Someone Is Known in Depth
July: Fri, 16 — Action Is Always Peturbative to the Spirit
July: Thu, 15 — What Distinguishes an Artist Is the Strength and Multiplicity of His Manifestations
July: Tue, 13 — A Culturally Relevant Country
July: Mon, 12 — The Man Reaches the Apex of His Humorous Vocation in Revolt
July: Fri, 9 — Inevitable Prejudice
July: Thu, 8 — Melancholy…
July: Wed, 7 — It Is Necessary the Vocation of Freedom to Recognize Oneself as a Slave
July: Tue, 6 — Stoicism Applied to Emotional Intelligence
July: Mon, 5 — The Modern Panorama of Cultural Degradation
July: Fri, 2 — Serious Art Does Not Deliver Pleasure to the Artist
July: Thu, 1 — The Great Artist Does Not Simply Recreate Existence
June: Tue, 29 — Literature Through Whiplash
June: Mon, 28 — The Horror of Life Is the Awareness of It
June: Sat, 26 — The Phases in Learning a Language
June: Fri, 25 — Idealizing the Impossible
June: Thu, 24 — The Men of Letters
June: Tue, 22 — The Diaries of Men From Other Times
June: Fri, 18 — Incompatibilities Between Superior Minds
June: Thu, 17 — By Reasoning One Does Not Reach Truth of Any Kind
June: Tue, 15 — Becoming an Expert
June: Mon, 14 — Misanthropy Is One of the Most Salutary Traits to Reasoning That Has Been Reported
June: Fri, 11 — Vanity Leads to Hypocrisy
June: Thu, 10 — The Cemetery of Great Works
June: Tue, 8 — Psychological Variations
June: Mon, 7 — Gaining People’s Sympathy
June: Fri, 4 — The Book of Disquiet, by Fernando Pessoa
June: Thu, 3 — Utopia Is to Become a Complete Stranger
June: Tue, 1 — Philosophy Is Mediocre When It Is Reduced to a Rhetorical Contest
May: Mon, 31 — There Are Adapted and Maladapted Human Beings
May: Fri, 28 — Democracy Judges Itself to Be the Great Protector of the Individual
May: Thu, 27 — Science and Democracy
May: Tue, 25 — Scientific Philosophy: the Joke That One Does Not Tell at the Dinner Table
May: Mon, 24 — An Ordinary Person Does Not Kill Himself Because of a Mathematical Problem
May: Sun, 23 — Attraction and Repulsion
May: Fri, 21 — Eight Shots in Ten Seconds!
May: Tue, 18 — The Agreement With the Poet
May: Mon, 17 — It Is Impossible to Read Latin Without Being in an Absolute State of Concentration
May: Fri, 14 — Astrology…
May: Thu, 13 — Art Is the Act of Artistic Creation
May: Tue, 11 — Success Is the Ruin of the Artist
May: Fri, 7 — There Is Only Humility in Silence
May: Thu, 6 — The Guy Reads the Newspaper and Wants to Tell the World His Opinions
May: Mon, 3 — Rembrandt’s House
May: Mon, 3 — No Society Can Endure and Thrive Without a Strong Cultural Base
April: Fri, 30 — Modern Man Thinks He Is Important
April: Thu, 29 — The Midlife Crisis
April: Tue, 27 — Blessing or Weakness?
April: Mon, 26 — 400 Days Without Dostoevsky
April: Fri, 23 — The Modern Trend of Producing “Experts”
April: Thu, 22 — Nietzsche Symbolizes Freedom of Spirit
April: Tue, 20 — The Modern Monster
April: Mon, 19 — Paul Valéry’s Prose
April: Sat, 17 — A Parallel Life
April: Tue, 13 — The Green-Yellow Artist
April: Mon, 12 — Should the Great Art Be Accessible?
April: Sun, 11 — The Risk of Not Seeing the Obvious
April: Sun, 11 — Natural Antagonists
April: Fri, 9 — Maritime Ode, by Fernando Pessoa
April: Thu, 8 — Symbolists and Augusto dos Anjos
April: Fri, 2 — Blessed Are Those Who Have No Need of Judgment
April: Thu, 1 — Obsession in Nelson
March: Tue, 30 — Months of Inertia
March: Mon, 29 — Day and Night…
March: Fri, 26 — It Is Not Possible to Detach From Surroundings
March: Thu, 25 — Nationalism and Stupidity
March: Tue, 23 — Contradict the Convenient
March: Mon, 22 — More Lessons…
March: Fri, 19 — Elements of Quality Humor
March: Thu, 18 — The Appearance of Monotony Is Mixed With Visible Transformations
March: Tue, 16 — Gratitude Is a Noble Exercise
March: Sun, 14 — The Ultimate Utopia Is Stability
March: Sun, 14 — Carl Jung’s Acuity
March: Fri, 12 — Playing of Psychologist…
March: Mon, 8 — Details, in Art, Are Valid as Long as They Invigorate
March: Fri, 5 — Objective: Word Invented by Men
March: Thu, 4 — Every Book Should Have a Colored Label Attached to the Cover
March: Tue, 2 — Affliction and Revolt
March: Mon, 1 — Renounces and Apostasies
February: Fri, 26 — Easy Money!
February: Thu, 25 — Forced by Circumstances
February: Tue, 23 — The Substance of Life Is Time
February: Mon, 22 — A Movie Script Worths Its Structure
February: Fri, 19 — Maturity Eequires the Experience of Deviation
February: Thu, 18 — Contrast of Generations
February: Tue, 16 — The World That No Longer Exists
February: Mon, 15 — Always Acts the Law of the Jungle
February: Fri, 12 — The Infamous Is Pleasant in Front of the Cunning
February: Thu, 11 — Reflecting on Despair Vaccinates Against Despair
February: Tue, 9 — Prior and Regular Reflection Is Necessary
February: Mon, 8 — The Obsession With Artistic Technique
February: Fri, 5 — Philosophy Is Saturated With Vain People
February: Thu, 4 — Money Degrades Existence and Dulls
February: Tue, 2 — Screaming in Front of a Screen
February: Mon, 1 — To Put the Motivation in the Hope of a Certain Payment is a Childish Attitude
January: Fri, 29 — What is art?, by Leo Tolstoy
January: Thu, 28 — No to the Linguistic Cheating!
January: Tue, 26 — The Construction of a Logical Monument
January: Mon, 25 — Dostoevsky and the Artistic Technique
January: Fri, 22 — The Evolved Conscience Has to Behave as a Company
January: Thu, 21 — The Provincial Letters, by Blaise Pascal
January: Tue, 19 — An Anti-Marketing Attitude
January: Mon, 18 — The Unique and Its Property, by Max Stirner
January: Fri, 15 — In Dreams Play the Conscience Causing Remorse

2020 (200)

December: Tue, 15 — A Pause
December: Mon, 14 — The Myth of Sisyphus, by Albert Camus
December: Fri, 11 — The Understanding of Human Nature Demands the Detachment From Reason
December: Thu, 10 — Mere Transcription Exercise
December: Tue, 8 — With a Clipboard in the Face of Misfortune
December: Mon, 7 — The Crowd Is Essentially Cowardly
December: Fri, 4 — The Individual Repels the Group
December: Thu, 3 — Democracy Will End Up Hanged by Democrats
December: Tue, 1 — Expansions in Shock
November: Mon, 30 — Fatigue
November: Sun, 29 — Conscience Manifests Itself by Engaging in Conflict
November: Fri, 27 — Endless Tyranny
November: Thu, 26 — Between Humility and Shame
November: Mon, 23 — The Story That Kafka Did Not Write
November: Fri, 20 — Pleasure in the Verb
November: Thu, 19 — The Collapse of Democracy
November: Tue, 17 — Every Attack of a Moral Nature Is, First of All, a Testimony of Vanity
November: Mon, 16 — E. T. A. Hoffmann in the 21st Century
November: Sun, 15 — The Great Art Demands the Great Themes
November: Sun, 15 — The Living Representation of Contrary Psychological Manifestations
November: Sun, 15 — Invincible Need
November: Thu, 12 — I Would Be Infinitely Happier If I Were a Tree
November: Tue, 10 — The Word “Study”
November: Mon, 9 — Regional Literature Fails for Having Narrow Vision
November: Fri, 6 — Dignity
November: Thu, 5 — Manifesto of Emigrating Interest
November: Tue, 3 — Personality is demarcated by choices
November: Mon, 2 — Determinism Is Mediocre and Cowardly
October: Fri, 30 — A Golden Rainbow
October: Thu, 29 — It Is With Him That I Go….
October: Tue, 27 — I Want to Believe That Glory Is in Free Will
October: Fri, 23 — The Queen of Procrastination
October: Tue, 20 — Eyes That Cannot See…
October: Mon, 19 — Letters Prevent Life From Being Completely Swept Away
October: Fri, 16 — The Amazing Silence Around Otto Maria Carpeaux
October: Thu, 15 — Drummond’s Discouragement
October: Mon, 12 — A Gigantic Oven
October: Fri, 9 — Some Say There Is Poetry Without Rhythm…
October: Thu, 8 — The Traditional Melodic and Rhythmic Elements of Poetry
October: Tue, 6 — Slaves of Praise
October: Mon, 5 — Victor Hugo’s Lesson
October: Fri, 2 — Conviviality Is a Pact of Falsehood
October: Thu, 1 — When I Open a Book, I Do Not Sign a Contract
September: Tue, 29 — ABC of Reading, by Ezra Pound
September: Mon, 28 — The “Motivational Therapy”
September: Fri, 25 — The Human Being Does Not Change His Essence
September: Thu, 24 — What Is Called “Society” Requires the Representation of a Role
September: Tue, 22 — The Lyrical Love Poetry Is Doomed to Disappear
September: Mon, 21 — Those Who Seem to Live a Lot Live Very Little
September: Fri, 18 — The Philosophy of Composition, by Edgar Allan Poe
September: Thu, 17 — Patience Is Necessary to Compose a Poem
September: Tue, 15 — Perseverance and Nothing More…
September: Mon, 14 — The Poetic Principle, by Edgar Allan Poe
September: Fri, 11 — Do the Diplomas Confer Indispensable Quality for Literature?
September: Thu, 10 — Perhaps There Has Never Been a Profession as Prostituted as That of Writer
September: Tue, 8 — My Newspaper
September: Mon, 7 — The Human Being Lives in a Vegetative State
September: Fri, 4 — Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy
September: Thu, 3 — The “Important” Constantly Changes Face
September: Tue, 1 — It is the Comedians Who Best Caress Human Pain
August: Mon, 31 — The Role of Literary Critics in the Intellectual’s Formation
August: Fri, 28 — Democracy, an American Novel, by Henry Adams
August: Thu, 27 — Every Intention That Requires the Action of a Third Party Is Bad
August: Tue, 25 — Few Defects Make a Worse Impression Than the Inclination to Retreat
August: Mon, 24 — “The object of this work is the investigation of the problem…”
August: Fri, 21 — Affability Is the Customary Packaging of Falsehood
August: Thu, 20 — Thought Only Blossoms in Silence
August: Tue, 18 — He Who Does Not Know Foreign Languages Does Not Know Anything About His Own
August: Mon, 17 — Intellectual Formation Requirements
August: Fri, 14 — Beat or Succumb to Death
August: Thu, 13 — Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
August: Tue, 11 — The Clash Between Vanity and Conscience
August: Mon, 10 — A Confession, by Leo Tolstoy
August: Fri, 7 — Reality and Dream
August: Thu, 6 — The Repression of the Subconscious
August: Tue, 4 — The American Bush and the Brazilian Bush
August: Mon, 3 — Composing Free Verses Is a Great Way to Escape the Comparison
July: Fri, 31 — The Absence of a More Noble Conception
July: Thu, 30 — The Explosion of an Unbearable Inner Conflict
July: Tue, 28 — An Unsuitable Animal [2]
July: Mon, 27 — An Unsuitable Animal
July: Fri, 24 — It Is Amazing How the Need for Money Makes Existence Worse
July: Thu, 23 — Laughing at What Causes Anger…
July: Tue, 21 — There Is a Wall Between Independent Thought and Popular Thought
July: Mon, 20 — A Thousand Times Sorry
July: Fri, 17 — Hues of Vanity
July: Thu, 16 — The War Against Falsehood
July: Tue, 14 — Don Quijote de la Mancha, by Miguel de Cervantes
July: Mon, 13 — Philosophy in Literature and Literature in Philosophy
July: Fri, 10 — Wealth and Freedom
July: Tue, 7 — The Illusion of Poetic Freedom
July: Mon, 6 — The Problem of Originality
July: Fri, 3 — Violate the Rules
July: Thu, 2 — Spreadsheets, Spreadsheets…
June: Tue, 30 — To Be Poor or to Be a Slave?
June: Mon, 29 — Desire: the Cancer of the Human Psyche
June: Fri, 26 — The “Masterpieces of Genre Fiction”
June: Thu, 25 — Hatred Consecrates More Often than Love
June: Tue, 23 — The Desire for Agreement
June: Mon, 22 — The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
June: Fri, 19 — Knowledge and Compound Interest
June: Thu, 18 — Force the Brain
June: Tue, 16 — Achieving Bliss
June: Mon, 15 — The Bureaucrats’ Resistance
June: Fri, 12 — The Rhythm of the Letters
June: Thu, 11 — Independence and Resolution
June: Tue, 9 — The Fate of the Intellectual
June: Mon, 8 — The Distance Between the Audience and the Artist
June: Fri, 5 — Style Is Abundance of Expressive Resources
June: Thu, 4 — The Great Human Problem Is Whether or Not There is Purpose
June: Tue, 2 — The Alter Ego in Literature
June: Mon, 1 — The Silence of Machado de Assis
May: Fri, 29 — Inspiration: Conscious Brain Stimulation
May: Thu, 28 — The Unbearable “I”
May: Tue, 26 — A Narrator Should Not Provide Interpretations of His Own Work
May: Mon, 25 — The Passport to Glory
May: Thu, 21 — The Summit Is Natural Neighbor of the Abyss
May: Tue, 19 — Endless Injustices
May: Mon, 18 — The Red and the Black, by Stendhal
May: Fri, 15 — Mysteries of the Human Psyche
May: Thu, 14 — Faust, by Goethe
May: Tue, 12 — Short Clauses and Pace
May: Mon, 11 — The World as Will and Representation, by Schopenhauer
May: Fri, 8 — Very Simple Precept
May: Tue, 5 — Publication: Act of Renounce
May: Mon, 4 — How to Deal with Creative Blocks?
April: Thu, 30 — Psychological Novels
April: Tue, 28 — The Real Artist
April: Mon, 27 — Literary Critics
April: Thu, 23 — Reverse Motivation
April: Tue, 21 — The Homeland of Letters
April: Mon, 20 — Talent is a Long Patience
April: Fri, 17 — Luiz Felipe Pondé and the Genomic Problem
April: Tue, 14 — The Basis of Literature
April: Mon, 13 — Simplicity and Action
April: Fri, 10 — Literature as a Foundation of Personality
April: Tue, 7 — The Reader of the Future
April: Mon, 6 — History of Western Literature, by Otto Maria Carpeaux
April: Fri, 3 — To Let the Absurd Gush
April: Thu, 2 — About the Pest
April: Wed, 1 — Orthodoxy, by G. K. Chesterton
March: Mon, 30 — Sarcasm, Sarcasm…
March: Thu, 26 — The Best of All Times
March: Tue, 24 — It Is Meritorious To Be Evangelical
March: Mon, 23 — Evangelical Pastors
March: Fri, 20 — Psychological Particularities
March: Wed, 18 — Why Is Not Machado de Assis Among the Greatest Writers in History?
March: Tue, 17 — Literature and Solitude
March: Mon, 16 — The Burrow, by Franz Kafka
March: Fri, 13 — More Lines About Love…
March: Thu, 12 — Love: Highlight of Selfishness
March: Wed, 11 — Freedom or Slavery?
March: Tue, 10 — Inaccuracy of Biblical Texts
March: Mon, 9 — To Love and To Be Loved
March: Fri, 6 — Contradict Oneself Voluntarily
March: Thu, 5 — The Intellectual Life, by A. D. Sertillanges
March: Wed, 4 — Pursuit of Happiness
March: Tue, 3 — Human Corruption
March: Mon, 2 — Convictions
February: Fri, 28 — Judging: Unbearable Act!
February: Thu, 27 — The Common Christian
February: Tue, 25 — Inglorious Occupation
February: Mon, 24 — Cure for Aging
February: Sat, 22 — Mandatory Way
February: Fri, 21 — Modern Pretension
February: Thu, 20 — Fathers and Sons, by Ivan Turgenev
February: Tue, 18 — Patience
February: Mon, 17 — Candide, or Optimism, by Voltaire
February: Sun, 16 — Humor As a Purpose
February: Fri, 14 — Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims, by La Rochefoucauld
February: Tue, 11 — Nietzsche and Cioran: Philosophy for Teenagers?
February: Mon, 10 — The Artist and the Coherence
February: Sat, 8 — Future of Humanity
February: Thu, 6 — Intelligent Attitude
February: Wed, 5 — Alfred de Vigny: “La solitude est sainte”
February: Tue, 4 — Emil Cioran, Emeritus Master in Cynicism
February: Mon, 3 — Impositions of the Randomness
February: Sun, 2 — The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
January: Fri, 31 — The Contingency in Nassim Nicholas Taleb
January: Thu, 30 — Nietzsche and the Impotence of Language
January: Wed, 29 — Quincas Borba, by Machado de Assis
January: Tue, 28 — Hope: the Holy Hootch
January: Sun, 26 — Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
January: Sat, 25 — Chinese and Vanity
January: Fri, 24 — The Sopranos, by David Chase
January: Thu, 23 — Poisonous Ideas
January: Tue, 21 — Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl
January: Sun, 19 — Steppenwolf, by Hermann Hesse
January: Fri, 17 — Nature…
January: Thu, 16 — The Wisdom of the Ecclesiastes
January: Wed, 15 — About Self-Help Books
January: Tue, 14 — Solemnity While Praying
January: Mon, 13 — The Substance of These Lines
January: Sat, 11 — Gulliver’s Travels, by Jonathan Swift
January: Fri, 10 — My Maternal Great-grandfather
January: Wed, 8 — História de Dom Pedro II, by Heitor Lyra [2]
January: Tue, 7 — História de Dom Pedro II, by Heitor Lyra
January: Sun, 5 — The Venom of Schopenhauer
January: Sat, 4 — Write for the Cinema
January: Fri, 3 — Vow of Silence

2019 (14)

December: Tue, 31 — Happy New Year!
December: Mon, 30 — Deignified!
December: Sun, 29 — Lack of Maturity and Discernment
December: Wed, 25 — Life As It Is, by Nelson Rodrigues
December: Tue, 24 — Christmas Eve
December: Mon, 23 — About Dynamic Reading
December: Sun, 22 — Ulysses, by James Joyce
December: Thu, 19 — Crítica e profecia: a filosofia da religião em Dostoiévski, by Luiz Felipe Pondé
December: Wed, 18 — Amy Winehouse
December: Mon, 16 — The Sorrows of Young Werther, by Goethe
December: Sun, 15 — The Turnaround
December: Sun, 15 — How to Learn Languages
December: Sun, 15 — The Mirror, by Andrei Tarkovsky
December: Sun, 15 — About Music