42 Quotes by Jorge Amado

"Love--the most wonderful and most terrible thing in the world."

"The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises ."

"Night was running ahead of itself."

"I am a writer who has written about the life of my people, the character of my people. What I can say is that the greatest hero of the Brazilian novel is the Brazilian people."

"Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time."

"Love is not to be proven or measured...It exists, and that is enough."

"The world is like that – incomprehensible and full of surprises ."

"Love – the most wonderful and most terrible thing in the world."

"Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn’t change them, since I believed them at the time."

"Ele e o marido da Senhora Dona Flor, cuida de tua virtude, de tua honra, de teu respeito humano. Ele e tua face matinal, eu sou tua noite, o amante para o qual nao tem nem jeito nem coragem. Somos teus dois maridos, tuas duas faces, teu sim teu nao. Para ser feliz, precisas de nos dois. Quando era eu so, tinhas meu amor e te faltava tudo, como sofrias! Quando foi so ele, tinhas de um tudo, nada te faltava, sofrias ainda mais. Agora sim, es dona Flor inteira como deves ser."