Departure to seminary
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Meses depois fui para o seminário de São José. Se eu pudesse contar as lágrimas que chorei na véspera e na manhã, somaria mais que todas as vertidas desde Adão e Eva. Há nisto alguma exageração; mas é bom ser enfático, uma ou outra vez, para compensar este escrúpulo de exatidão que me aflige.
Months after I went to the seminary of Saint Joseph. If I could count the tears that I cried on the eve and on the morning, it would sum more than all those shed since Adam and Eve. There is in this some exaggeration; but it is good to be emphatic, one or another time, to compensate this scruple of exactness that afflicts me.
The narrator describes his departure to the seminary and the tears he shed.
The narrator reflects on his departure to the seminary, exaggerating the amount of tears he shed, but justifies the exaggeration as a way to compensate for his usual scruple of exactness.
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