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Men don’t need only bread to survive

        Men need bread to feed their bodies. But, some men don’t need only bread to live better. They need arts or they need to look around them to admire life, and, especially, they need the willpower to enjoy their life.
         Who are those who fall in love, despite ignoring and scorning poetries and their poems, and are able to say lovely things? These people consider these poetries and their lyrics poems without importance because they are products created by human weakness. Suddenly, when these people find love, they are able to make promises of love or comparisons of beauty and see the world like a big garden. They are able to say lovely phrases to their lovers but they forget these phrases derive from sad poets speaking about their anguishes and melancholy.
         They find love or live in ecstasy when love happens. In these moments all people are equal. Words thought and imagined by sensitive beings like artists, are forgotten in lost papers in the drawers or over dusty tables and in old books. Finally, the ones who never read or saw them recovered their words from poems and pictures despite having forgotten their origins, and try to encourage their hearts using them.
        They start to find the beauty of colours when these colours join and forge an image and it doesn’t abandon them. When love touches them, they see colours and images in their imagination and their lives are in tumult. Suddenly, they organise their homes or their work table, clothes, and their way of life. There is a perfect combination in life when artists put in their mouths the fine expression of things that they thought and can mix body and soul.
        This vibe passes through them and they don’t understand anything but they can elaborate on things that cannot be joined or things that cannot be divided.
       Curves and straight lines are responsible for satisfying them to enjoy this strange world in front of them. They find sensuality in the curves of mountains and their brains try to understand the artists of numbers and words and the uncontrollable designs of architects. How could they say plausible things told by others?
        Some men don’t need only bread to live better because their souls don’t need only physical food. Souls survive with the freshness of the world and new ideas and new projects of things they do and things that they don’t do. Even if souls are disappointed, at the same time anguishes can enrich people, and after that souls are ready to help them to reach their futures.
       Our souls feed on the energy that comes from others who give us their souls. Our souls feed from moments that we learn and we teach, in this endless flow of time like blood running fast. In the end, the food for the soul is our history and willpower.

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Nilson Lattari

Nilson Lattari é carioca, escritor, graduado em Literatura pela Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, e com especialização em Estudos Literários pela Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora. Gosta de escrever, principalmente, crônicas e artigos sobre comportamentos humanos, políticos ou sociais. É detentor de vários prêmios em Literatura

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