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Bruzundanga's literature is ruled by cute, rhyming and tasteless sonnets.

— Lima Barreto Os Bruzundangas (1923)

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The great question is: from which country shall we copy the Constitution?

Os Bruzundangas (1923)

It was a rude, brutal and purposely ugly book. However, it was an honest book.

Recordações do Escrivão Isaias Caminha (1909)

The true love is a state of half-madness, of some kind of soft obsession, ruling a so delicate kind of feeling that can lead a person from the greatest happiness to the most dreadful pain.

Clara dos Anjos (1948)

We are nothing in this life.

Clara dos Anjos (1948)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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