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Karel Čapek foi um escritor checo. Foi o criador da palavra Robot . Em 1921, Capek escreveu uma peça de teatro chamada R.U.R. , iniciais de "Rosumovi Univerzální Roboti". A peça conta a história de um cientista brilhante, chamado Rossum, que desenvolve uma substância química similar ao protoplasma. Ele utiliza essa substância para construção de humanoides , com o intuito de que estes sejam obedientes e realizem todo o trabalho físico.

Outras de obras suas são A Guerra das Salamandras, espécie de fábula acerca da descoberta de uma espécie de salamandras dotadas de elevada inteligência e que são escravizadas pelos humanos, numa visão extremamente crítica do capitalismo, da ciência e de diversos aspectos do mundo contemporâneo. Suas "Histórias Apócrifas" são uma série de contos baseados em fatos reais ou pretensamente reais, mas nos quais o autor inventa e insere "variantes" bastante irônicas, tal como num dos contos, no qual um padeiro de Jerusalém conversava com um amigo, dizendo que estava atraído pelos ensinamentos do rabi Jesus, mas que tinha desistido de tal atitude, após descobrir que o rabi teria algo contra os padeiros, uma vez que teria promovido um milagre de multiplicação de pães e criado grande prejuízo para todos os padeiros.

Čapek também praticou literatura infantil, com "Dachenca: a história de uma cachorrinha", que narra carinhosamente a história de uma pequena cadela Fox Terrier, chamada Dachenca. A história é muito bem humorada e inteligente, além de ser enriquecida com desenhos da cachorrinha, feitos pelo próprio autor.

✵ 9. Janeiro 1890 – 25. Dezembro 1938
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Karel Čapek frases e citações

“A verdade tem de ser passada de contrabando; é preciso difundi-la por partes, uma gota de cada vez, para as pessoas se habituarem, e não de uma vez só.”

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De verdade , De pessoas , Passado

Karel Čapek: Frases em inglês

“I think I am slowly becoming an anarchist, that this is only another label for my privateness, and I think that you will understand this in the sense of being against collectivity.”

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Statement to S. K. Neumann, as quoted Karel Čapek: Life and Work (2002) by Ivan Klima

“The Continent is noisier, less disciplined, dirtier, more rabid, craftier, more passionate, more convivial, more amorous, hedonistic, vivacious, coarse, garrulous, unruly and somehow less perfect. Please, give me a ticket straight to the Continent.”

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Letters from England (1925)

“Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end … Art must not serve might.”

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Statement to S. K. Neumann, as quoted Karel Čapek: Life and Work (2002) by Ivan Klima

“Why are there stars when there are no people? O God, why don't you just extinguish them? — Cool my brow, ancient night! Divine and fair as you always were — O night, what purpose do you serve? There are no lovers, no dreams. O nursemaid, dead as a sleep without dreams, you no longer hallow anyone's prayers. O mother of us all, you don't bless a single heart smitten with love. There is no love.”

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Karel Čapek R.U.R.

R.U.R. (1920)

“Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.”

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R.U.R. (1920)

“Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with — no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.”

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R.U.R. (1920)

“At the Petrin telegraph station, religion broke out like an epidemic. For no earthly reason, all the telegraph operators on duty were sending out ecstatic messages to the whole world, a sort of new gospel saying that God is coming back down to earth to redeem it …”

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Karel Čapek livro The Absolute at Large

The Absolute at Large (1921)

“"Figh-ting in the Bal-kans." Lord Jesus, another of God's punishments! But that war'll get here too! Is it far from here?”

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R.U.R. (1920)

“We've become beings with souls… Something struggles within us. There are moments when something gets into us. Thoughts come to us which are not our own… People are our fathers! The voice that cries out that you want to live; the voice that complains; the voice that reasons; the voice that speaks of eternity — that is their voice!”

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R.U.R. (1920)

“One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.”

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Letters from England (1925)

“You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.”

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Karel Čapek livro The Absolute at Large

The Absolute at Large (1921)

“Within the next ten years Rossum's Universal Robots will produce so much wheat, so much cloth, so much everything that things will no longer have any value. Everyone will be able to take as much as he needs. There'll be no more poverty. Yes, people will be out of work, but by then there'll be no work left to be done. Everything will be done by living machines. People will do only what they enjoy. They will live only to perfect themselves… But before that some awful things may happen, Miss Glory. That just can't be avoided. But then the subjugation of man by man and the slavery of man to matter will cease. Never again will anyone pay for his bread with hatred and his life. There'll be no more laborers, no more secretaries. No one will have to mine coal or slave over someone else's machines. No longer will man need to destroy his soul doing work that he hates.”

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Karel Čapek R.U.R.

R.U.R. (1920)

“Robots of the world! Many people have fallen. By seizing the factory we have become the masters of everything. The age of mankind is over. A new world has begun! The rule of Robots!”

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R.U.R. (1920)

“O nature, nature, life will not perish! Friends, Helena, life will not perish! It will begin anew with love; it will start out naked and tiny; it will take root in the wilderness, and to it all that we did and built will mean nothing — our towns and factories, our art, our ideas will all mean nothing, and yet life will not perish! Only we have perished. Our houses and machines will be in ruins, our systems will collapse, and the names of our great will fall away like dry leaves. Only you, love, will blossom on this rubbish heap and commit the seed of life to the winds. Now let Thy servant depart in peace, O Lord, for my eyes have beheld — beheld Thy deliverance through love, and life shall not perish!”

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Karel Čapek R.U.R.

R.U.R. (1920)

“Oh man, at that end not much has been left of your excellence, nothing of all that you have been boasting about through life - only sex, fear, self-admiration and a few other things you are usually ashamed of.”

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"Last Things of Man" (Stories from the Second Pocket, 1932)

“A guilty party is being sought. Such action is a favorite means of consolation in the face of calamity.”

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R.U.R. (1920)

“Everything is done for! All of humanity! The whole world!. … Look, look, streams of blood on every doorstep! Streams of blood from every house! Oh, God, God, who's responsible for this?”

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R.U.R. (1920)

“The only perfection which modern civilisation achieves is mechanical; machines are magnificent and immaculate but the life which serves them or is served by them isn't magnificent or shiny or more perfect or more comely.”

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Letters from England (1925)

“Each of us is we.”

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An Ordinary Life (1934), as quoted in Toward the Radical Center: A Karel Čapek Reader (1990), edited by Peter Kussi, p. 20

“Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is — and that is the point I want to stress — that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word... I ask whether it is not possible to see in the present social conflict of the world an analogous struggle between two, three, five equally serious verities and equally generous idealisms? I think it is possible, and that is the most dramatic element in modern civilization, that a human truth is opposed to another human truth no less human, ideal against ideal, positive worth against worth no less positive, instead of the struggle being as we are so often told, one between noble truth and vile selfish error.”

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R.U.R. supplement in The Saturday Review (1923)

“Why are there stars when there are no people? O God, why don't you just extinguish them?”

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Cool my brow, ancient night! Divine and fair as you always were — O night, what purpose do you serve? There are no lovers, no dreams. O nursemaid, dead as a sleep without dreams, you no longer hallow anyone's prayers. O mother of us all, you don't bless a single heart smitten with love. There is no love.
R.U.R. (1920)

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