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Nowadays, we lived in a time boundary when emotion defeated logic, an era when gut feeling reigned over rationality. There was no patience for the difficult, the indecipherable, yet what else was the human heart but that?

- Sylvie in Jean Kwok's Searching for Sylvie Lee
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I waited for a touch of emotion, the faintest glow. Nothing.
É que eu me lembro que eu te dei o meu melhor e recebi o teu pior.

Mas eu sei que a gente só dá o que tem.

- Sylvia Plath & Yas Speransa
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If Mrs. Guinea had given me a ticket to Europe, or a round-the-world cruise, it wouldn't have made one scrap of difference to me, because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.

- Esther in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar
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why the hell I still love you

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The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
- Esther in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar
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só amei o que tinha fim
e tudo que amei se eternizou

- mia couto
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A noite é escassa
para tanta saudade.

- Mia Couto
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Depois de ti,
não há caminhos.

Para que servem as ruas
depois de ter você?

- Mia Couto & Adriana Calcanhotto
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Sou o açucar
procurando a formiga.

- Mia Couto
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Com a fragilidade de um riso
enfrentei ruinas e derrotas
e apenas a vida, calada, me calou.

- Mia Couto
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