“If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.”
Se não formos capazes de viver inteiramente como pessoas, ao menos façamos tudo para não viver inteiramente como animais.
Source: Blindness (1995), p. 116
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Se não formos capazes de viver inteiramente como pessoas, ao menos, façamos tudo para não viver inteiramente como animais.
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Variant: Se não formos capazes de viver inteiramente como pessoas, ao menos façamos tudo para não viver inteiramente como animais.
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