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Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
“I always hated hearing old people yammering on like this when I was young. And I do what to assure you: I'm aware that many thing were not better in the 1940s. Underarm deodorants and air-conditioning were woefully inadequate, for instance, so everybody stank like crazy, especially in the summer, and also we had Hitler.”
― City of Girls
― City of Girls
“no exato momento, num outro jardim, completamente diferente, exatamente igual, alguém pronuncia essas palavras e o mesmo sorriso repousa em outro rosto”
― Las bellas imágenes
― Las bellas imágenes
“muitas vezes, o que a idade traz não é sabedoria, mas sim intolerância”
― The Chalk Man
― The Chalk Man
“Let us not become so cautious that we forget to live.”
― City of Girls
― City of Girls
“Why did she feel the need to make everyone like her? What a thing it must be to be indifferent to indifference.”
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
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