6 de Maio de 1862
Morte de Henry David Thoreau (n. 1817)
[06.05.2015]
O essencial,
apenas o essencial
apenas o essencial
Hoje, o excerto de uma obra de absoluta referência, que li em 1969, no âmbito da cadeira de Literatura e Cultura Norte-Americana, do quinto ano do Curso de Filologia Germânica na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa. Era professor o então jovem assistente João Barrento, que se tornaria no distinto catedrático germanista a quem, portugueses e alemães, tanto devemos.
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"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. (...)".
"Walden: Or, Life in the Woods"
Henry David Thoreau
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"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. (...)".
"Walden: Or, Life in the Woods"
Henry David Thoreau
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and ...
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