“Polemical zeal can produce an fixation on the other side, or sides, of purely hostile intent.”
Perry Anderson (1938) British historian
Source: Spectrum: From Right to Left in the World of Ideas (2005), Foreword, p. xi
“I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself
And falls on the other.”
Source: Macbeth
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Ser poeta não é uma ambição minha
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Original: Durmo e desdurmo.
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