“Se você construiu castelos no ar, não pense que desperdiçou seu trabalho; eles estão onde deveriam estar. Agora construa os alicerces.”
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Walden, Volume 1 - Página xli http://books.google.com.br/books?id=-EoLAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR41, Henry David Thoreau - Houghton, Mifflin, 1854
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A neurotic is the man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent
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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of “work,” because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do.
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