É a paz que dando os vagares da imaginação — causa as impaciências do desejo. - Eça de Queirós
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José Maria de Eça de Queiroz (or Eça de Queirós) (November 25, 1845 – August 16, 1900) was a Portuguese novelist, short-story writer, travel-writer, critic and diplomat. His novels, which are often compared to those of Balzac, Flaubert and Zola, satirize the Portuguese bourgeoisie and priesthood.
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(Prayer is) a fictitious consolation invented by those who have everything in order to keep those who have nothing contented. I belong to the bourgeoisie and I know the only reason my class bothers to show the lower classes that distant paradise full of ineffable pleasures that will one day be theirs is to divert attention from their own bulging coffers and from the abundance of their harvests.
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Quando recolhíamos ao quarto, alumiados pelo Gonçalves, passou por nós, bruscamente, no corredor, uma senhora, grande e branca, com um rumor forte de sedas claras, espalhando um aroma de almíscar. Era a inglesa do senhor barão. No meu leito de ferro, desperto pelo barulho das seges, eu pensava nela, rezando Ave-Marias. Nunca roçara corpo tão belo, de um perfume tão penetrante; ela era cheia de graça, O Senhor estava com ela, e passava, bendita entre as mulheres, com um rumor de sedas claras. . .