A vida é tão bela que a mesma idéia da morte precisa de vir primeiro a ela, antes de se ver cumprida. - Machado de Assis

I even thought her heart taught me something, in spite of its inexperience, or perhaps precisely because of it, for in matters of love one unlearns with practice, and the novice is the learned one.

Life is so beautiful that even the idea of death must be born before it can be realized.

How many wicked intentions climb aboard a pure and innocent phrase, after it is already on its way! It is enough to make one suspect that lying is, many a time, as involuntary as breathing.