«Four women in each woman»
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« Em cada mulher, quatro mulheres incomprehensiveis, pensando alternadamente como se hão de desmentir umas ás outras.»
«In each woman, four incomprehensible women, plotting by turns how they will contradict one another.»
The narrator's rival maxim, framed as a salon aphorism: in every woman there are four incomprehensible women, plotting by turns how to contradict one another.
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