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Há frases que ficam guardadas na memória, muito mais tempo até do que os livros de onde se descobrem. Quase que me tinha esquecido deste, não fosse o acaso da vida relembrar-me que a terça-feira sucede à segunda-feira; e depois vem a quarta-feira...

'Nevertheless, life is pleasant, life is tolerable. Tuesday
follows Monday; then comes Wednesday. The mind grows rings; the
identity becomes robust; pain is absorbed in growth. Opening and
shutting, shutting and opening, with increasing hum and sturdiness,
the haste and fever of youth are drawn into service until the whole
being seems to expand in and out like the mainspring of a clock.
How fast the stream flows from January to December! We are swept
on by the torrent of things grown so familiar that they cast no
shadow. We float, we float . . .

The Waves, Virginia Woolf