"Por que bonita, se coxa? Por que coxa, se bonita?"

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Source : Machado de Assis (1998). “Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas”, p.127, Atelie Editorial

Machado de Assis

“He would say, "How funny it will all seem, all you've gone through, when I'm not here anymore, when you no longer feel my arms around your shoulders, nor my heart beneath you, nor this mouth on your eyes, because I will have to go away some day, far away..." And in that instant I could feel myself with him gone, dizzy with fear, sinking down into the most horrible blackness: into death.”
“I am not someone who tends to advocate for increased government involvement in the private sector.”
“It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.”
“Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.”
“He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.”
“Design is a response to social change.”
“Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.”

Source : Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”
“The civilization of cities is breeding a new race of monks who have none of the original religious drive towards chastity, but are just incapable of facing the responsibilities of marriage.”

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