Dom Casmurro 51.4 · 51.4

Selo e pureza

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Quanto ao selo, Deus, como fez as mãos limpas, assim fez os lábios limpos, e a malícia está antes na tua cabeça perversa que na daquele casal de adolescentes... Oh!

As for the seal, God, as He made the hands clean, so He made the lips clean, and malice is rather in your perverse head than in that couple of adolescents... Oh!

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O narrador reflete sobre a pureza do selo e a malícia humana.

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The narrator argues that God created both hands and lips pure, and that malice resides in the perverse mind of the accuser, not in the innocent young couple.

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