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Love makes man spiritual – and woman material.

— José Maria Eça de Queiroz José Matias (1897)

O amor espiritualiza o homem – e materializa a mulher.

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Over the sturdy nakedness of truth
the diaphanous veil of phantasy.

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The Englishman without his tea fights only half-heartedly.

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Superior forms of thought have a fatal tendency of later becoming revealed law: and all philosophy ends, in its last stages, by becoming religion.

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In general, we Portuguese only begin to be idiotic when we reach the age of reason. While we are young we all have a spark of genius.

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I came to the conclusion – as one invariably does in philosophy – that I was up against a primary cause and therefore an insoluble one.

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