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Véspera
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Tinham, ao contrário, brincado muito quando meninos, época em que brincar e amar são a mesma coisa. Podiam se distanciar, mas nunca tirar deles o que foram. Não era apenas eles que sentiam saudade, era a saudade que os fazia sentir.
“To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new. We are told that the oldest inhabitants in Peru do not cease to be agitated by the earthquakes, but they probably see beyond each shock, and reflect that there are plenty more to come.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“Every time I change wives I should burn the last one. That way I'd be rid of them. They wouldn't be around to complicate my existence. Maybe, that would bring back my youth, too. You kill the woman and you wipe out the past she represents.”
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“For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
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