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“My fits of jealousy were intense, but brief: in an instant would tear down everything, but in the same instant I would reconstruct the sky, the earth and the stars.
The truth is I grew fonder of Capitú, if that is possible, she more tender, the air more balmy, the nights more bright, and God more God.”

“One of the sacrifices that I make to this hard necessity is the analysis of my seventeen-year-old emotions. I do not know if you were once seventeen. If you were, you must know that it is an age in which a half-man and a half-child form a curious whole. I was a most curious whole, as my dependent José Dias would say, and he would not be far wrong.”

“. . . O sweet companion of my childish days, I was pure, pure I remained and pure I entered the halls of Sao José to seek, in appearance, the sacerdotal investiture; and before it, the call. But the call was you; the investiture, you.”