Status Updates From The Portrait of a Lady

"Quem era ela, o que era ela, para manter-se assim, superior? Que visão da vida, que desígnio sobre o destino, que concepção de felicidade tinha, que pretendia ser maior que essas grandes, essas fabulosas oportunidades? Se não queria fazer tal coisa, então teria que fazer grandes coisas, fazer algo maior."

“…it seemed to her often that her mind moved more quickly than theirs, and this encouraged an impatience that might easily be confounded with superiority... At moments she discovered she was grotesquely wrong and then she treated herself to a week of passionate humility. After this, she held her head higher than ever again for it was of no use, she had an unquenchable desire to think well of herself.”