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Se alegra, é uma menina. Que alegria tem botar criança no mundo pra sofrer?
“Thank you,” the old man said. He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.”
― The Old Man and the Sea
― The Old Man and the Sea
“Não há virtude nenhuma em se apegar à tradição só pela tradição, como fazem alguns.”
― The Remains of the Day
― The Remains of the Day
“But, he thought, I keep them with precision. Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
― The Old Man and the Sea
― The Old Man and the Sea
“And yet what precisely is “greatness”? […] I would say that it is the very lack of obvious drama or spectacle that sets the beauty of our land apart. What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint. It is though the land knows of its own beuty, of its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.”
― The Remains of the Day
― The Remains of the Day
“Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated”
― The Old Man and the Sea
― The Old Man and the Sea
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