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The world is like that — incomprehensible and full of surprises.
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Color of cinnamon Clove's sweet smell,
I've come a long way To see Gabrielle.
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I have already told you Father, more than once: I'm not going to subject myself to a husband chosen for me, I'm not going to bury myself in some planter's kitchen, and I'm not going to be a servant to some doctor or lawyer in Ilhéus. I want to live my own life. When I finish school at the end of the year, I want to go to work in an office
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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.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
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Jorge Amado
Born:
August 10, 1912
Died:
August 6, 2001
(aged 88)
Bio:
Jorge Leal Amado de Faria was a Brazilian writer of the modernist school.
Known for:
Captains of the Sands (1937)
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon (1958)
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1966)
The Violent Land (1943)
Tent of Miracles (1968)
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