Luis de Camoes quotes
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“The nut of this tree is hung high aloft, wrapped in a silk wrapper, which is enclosed in a case of sole leather, which again is packed in a mass of shock absorbing, vermin proof pulp, sealed up in a waterproof, ironwood case, and finally cased in a vegetable porcupine of spines, almost impregnable. There is no nut so protected; there is no nut in our woods to compare with it as food. What is a Chesnut?”
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“A thousand trees are seen towards heaven rising, With beautiful and sweetly-scented apples; The orange, wearing on its lovely fruit The colour Daphne carried in her hair; Bent low, nay almost fallen to the ground, The citron, heavy with its yellow load; And, last, the graceful lemon with its fruit Of pleasant smell and shaped like virgins' breasts.”
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“a caring that gains only when losing; an obsessed desire to be bound, for love , in jail ; a capitulation to the one you've conquered yourself; a devotion to your own assassin every single day.”
-- Luis de CamoesSource : Luís de Camões (2008). “Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition”, p.45, University of Chicago Press
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“Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.”
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Source : Anne Bradstreet, Adelaide P. Amore (1982). “A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet”
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“I admit that Mendeleev has two wives, but I have only one Mendeleev.”
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“Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!”
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