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Amor de Perdição 3.38 · 3.38

«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.»

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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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