O Alienista
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Assim é que cada louco furioso era trancado em uma alcova, na própria casa, e, não curado, mas descurado, até que a morte o vinha defraudar do benefício da vida; os mansos andavam à solta pela rua.
“On the windless days, when the maples have put forth their deep canopies, and the sky is wearing its new blue immensities, and the wind has dusted itself not an hour ago in some spicy field and hardly touches us as it passes by, what is it we do? We lie down and rest upon the generous earth. Very likely we fall asleep.”
― Long Life: Essays and Other Writings
― Long Life: Essays and Other Writings
“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think, he [Einstein] said.”
― Einstein: His Life and Universe
― Einstein: His Life and Universe
“The truth was she couldn’t do ugly things. She was too beautiful.”
― The Collector
― The Collector
“My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love you”
― Pride & Prejudice screenplay
― Pride & Prejudice screenplay
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