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This world of fado singers, of beech trees, seemed to Carlos worthy of a study, a novel. This immediately led to talk of Zola’s L’assommoir and realism – and Alencar immediately, wiping the drops of soup from his moustache, begged that this latrinaire literature not to be discussed at the proper hour of dinner.

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Ilse is on page 141 of 714

Well, as soon as I can, I go straight to Paris! That’s the place! This place is a pigsty…If I don’t go there every year, believe me, I even start to get sick. That little boulevard, eh!...O, I love it…

— Oct 12, 2026 03:52AM

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Latin was a scholar’s luxury.

'But finally, the classics,’ the abbot ventured timidly.

-What classics! Man’s first duty is to live. And for that, it is necessary to be healthy and strong. All sensible education consists of this: creating health, strength, and habits, developing the animal exclusively, arming it with great physical superiority. As if it had no soul. The soul comes later….The soul is another luxury.

— Sep 30, 2026 08:27AM

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Affonso ended up discovering an intimate charm in the view.It was like a seascape,framed in white stonework, suspended from the blue sky showing the fleeting episodes of a peaceful river life with always in the background two white houses full of expression, sometimes sparkling and emitting rays from the glowing windows;sometimes taking on a pensive air,covered in the tender pinks of sunset,almost like a human blush

— Sep 28, 2026 09:20AM