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“Capitu, apesar daqueles olhos que o diabo lhe deu... Você já reparou nos olhos dela? São assim de cigana oblíqua e dissimulada. Pois apesar deles, poderia passar, se não fosse a vaidade e a adulação.”
— Dom Casmurro (1899), de Machado de Assis.
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I trembled with fear at the thought of looking into your eyes, but the temptation was greater than the fear. I suffered from such insomnia, thinking of your name: I went to bed so late that I woke up far too early searching for a way to reveal this secret of mine to you.
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I swear to God it wasn’t my fault that I desired your body and found myself gazing at your face—
That I saw you as sexier than an odalisque, and more beautiful than the moon in the month of August.
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