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He was stupid, yes; he had never had any schooling; he didn't know how to explain himself. Was he in jail because he doesn't know how to explain things right? What was wrong with his being stupid? He worked like a slave, day in and day out. [...] Was it his fault he was stupid? Who was to blame?
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Hell, Hell—"He couldn't believe that a word with so musical a ring could be the name of something bad.
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Natural, xingar a mãe de uma pessoa não vale nada, porque todo mundo vê logo que a gente não tem intenção de maltratar ninguém. Um ditério sem importância.
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Someone in the women's cell was crying and cursing the fleas. Some whore probably, the kind that would take on anybody. She was no good either. Fabiano wanted to yell to the whole town, to the judge, the chief of police, the priest, and the tax collector, that nobody in there was worth a damn. He, the men squatting around the fire, the drunk, the woman with the fleas —they were all completely worthless, fit only to be hanged.
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Os meninos eram uns brutos, como o pai. Quando crescessem, guardariam as reses de um patrão invisível, seriam pisados, maltratados, machucados por um soldado amarelo
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Certos escritores se desculpam de não haverem forjado coisas excelentes por falta de liberdade -- talvez ingênuo recurso de justificar inépcia ou preguiça. Liberdade completa ninguém desfruta: começamos oprimidos pela sintaxe e acabamos às voltas com a Delegacia de Ordem Política e Social, mas, nos estreitos limites a que nos coagem a gramática e a lei, ainda nos podemos mexer
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Remoeu umas coisas guturais e começou a roncar. Impossível qualquer aproximação. O isolamento em companhia de uma pessoa era mais opressivo que a solidão completa. Parecia-me que aquele homem estava morto.
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Se aprendesse qualquer coisa, necessitaria aprender mais, e nunca ficaria satisfeito.
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