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Machado de Assis
“Tinha então pouco mais de dezessete... Aqui devia ser o meio do livro, mas a inexperiência fez-me ir atrás da pena, e chego quase ao fim do papel, com o melhor da narração por dizer. Agora não há mais que levá-la a grandes pernadas, capítulo sobre capítulo, pouca emenda, pouca reflexão, tudo em resumo. Já esta página vale por meses, outras valerão por anos, e assim chegaremos ao fim. Um dos sacrifícios que faço a esta dura necessidade é a análise das minhas emoções dos dezessete anos. Não sei se alguma vez tiveste dezessete anos. Se sim, deves saber que é a idade em que a metade do homem e a metade do menino formam um só curioso. Eu era um curiosíssimo, diria o meu agregado José Dias, e não diria mal. O que essa qualidade superlativa me rendeu não poderia nunca dizê-lo aqui, sem cair no erro que acabo de condenar; a análise das minhas emoções daquele tempo é que entrava no meu plano. Posto que filho do seminário e de minha mãe, sentia já, debaixo do recolhimento casto, uns assomos de petulância e de atrevimento; eram do sangue, mas eram também das moças que na rua ou da janela não me deixavam viver sossegado. Achavam-me lindo, e diziam-mo; algumas queriam mirar de mais perto a minha beleza, e a vaidade é um princípio de corrupção.”
Machado de Assis, Dom Casmurro

Machado de Assis
“Capitu, apesar daqueles olhos que o Diabo lhe deu... Você já reparou nos olhos dela? São assim de cigana oblíqua e dissimulada.”
Machado de Assis, Dom Casmurro

James Joyce
“One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. He thought of how she who lay beside him had locked in her heart for so many years that image of her lover’s eyes when he had told her that he did not wish to live.”
James Joyce, The Dead (A Novella) (Annotated): Enriched Edition. A Snowbound Dublin Epiphany of Memory, Irish Identity, and Modernist Revelation

James Joyce
“Generous tears filled Gabriel’s eyes. He had never felt like that himself towards any woman, but he knew that such a feeling must be love. The tears gathered more thickly in his eyes and in the partial darkness he imagined he saw the form of a young man standing under a dripping tree. Other forms were near. His soul had approached that region where dwell the vast hosts of the dead. He was conscious of, but could not apprehend, their wayward and flickering existence. His own identity was fading out into a grey impalpable world: the solid world itself which these dead had one time reared and lived in was dissolving and dwindling.”
James Joyce, The Dead (A Novella) (Annotated): Enriched Edition. A Snowbound Dublin Epiphany of Memory, Irish Identity, and Modernist Revelation

James Joyce
“He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. The time had come for him to set out on his journey westward. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.”
James Joyce, The Dead (A Novella) (Annotated): Enriched Edition. A Snowbound Dublin Epiphany of Memory, Irish Identity, and Modernist Revelation

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