The soul as a house
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A alma da gente, como sabes, é uma casa assim disposta, não raro com janelas para todos os lados, muita luz e ar puro. Também as há fechadas e escuras, sem janelas, ou com poucas e gradeadas, à semelhança de conventos e prisões. Outrossim, capelas e bazares, simples alpendres ou paços suntuosos. Não sei o que era a minha.
The soul of people, as you know, is a house thus arranged, not rarely with windows on all sides, much light and pure air. Also there are closed and dark ones, without windows, or with few and barred, like convents and prisons. Likewise, chapels and bazaars, simple porches or sumptuous palaces. I do not know what mine was.
The narrator describes the soul as a house with various configurations, from open and airy to closed and dark, like convents or prisons, and wonders what his own soul was like.
The narrator compares the soul to a house that can be open and airy or closed and dark, like various buildings, and admits he does not know what his own soul was like.
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