Skip to content

We are nothing in this life.

— Lima Barreto Clara dos Anjos (1948)

Another quote →

More quotes by Lima Barreto

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

Os Bruzundangas (1923)

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)

All Lima Barreto quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Lima Barreto (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.