3 Quotes & Sayings By Sergio Chejfec

Sergio Chejfec was born in Brazil in 1959. He graduated from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in 1981 with a degree in Social Work. He has practiced social work for more than thirty years, holding positions in some of Brazil's most important government-sponsored welfare organizations. His research has focused on poverty issues, with a particular emphasis on the effects of the economic crisis on Brazil's poor Read more

He is the author of more than 50 publications in professional journals.

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For a long time, we assume we know who we are, until the moment we fully realize who that is; in that moment, identity is no longer predictable, but rather takes the form of a truth that, like any other, can become a sentence with no more than a change of perspective. Sergio Chejfec
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Identity is gradual, cumulative; because there is no need for it to manifest itself, it shows itself intermittently, the way a star hints at the pulse of its being by means of its flickering light. But at what moment in this oscillation is our true self manifested? In the darkness or the twinkle? Sergio Chejfec