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Penelope Fitzgerald livro Innocence
Innocence (1986)
Contexto: He struggled to keep his temper. It struck him that both Marta and Chiara took advantage of him by attacking him with their ignorance, or call it innocence. A serious thinking adult had no defence against innocence because he was obliged to respect it, whereas the innocent scarcely knows what respect is, or seriousness either.
“Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure, short of total abstention.”
Penelope Fitzgerald livro Human Voices
Human Voices (1980)