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- 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…
- 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
- 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: Mon, 6 — Voltaire, More Than Anyone, Had to Believe…
- June: Fri, 3 — The Writer Can Sleep Even on the Floor…
- 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: 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
- 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 — 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: 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: 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: 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: 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
- May: Mon, 31 — There Are Adapted and Maladapted Human Beings
- May: Thu, 27 — Science and Democracy
- May: Sun, 23 — Attraction and Repulsion
- May: Fri, 21 — Eight Shots in Ten Seconds!
- May: Tue, 18 — The Agreement With the Poet
- 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: Mon, 3 — Rembrandt’s House
- 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
- 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
- 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: 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: 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
- 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