Luis de Camoes Quotes

• a caring that gains only when losing; an obsessed desire to be bound, for love , in jail ; a capitulation to the one you've conquered yourself; a devotion to your own assassin every single day.

  Luis de Camoes

  Caring, Jail, Desire

  Luís de Camões (2008). “Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition”, p.45, University of Chicago Press

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• To many fame comes too late.

  Luis de Camoes

  Too Late, Fame, Late

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• Se ven mil árboles que se elevan hacia el cielo, con hermosas manzanas de dulce aroma; la naranja, que lleva en su hermosa fruta el color que Dafne llevaba en el pelo; inclinada hacia abajo, es más, casi caída en el suelo, la cidra, pesada con su carga amarilla; y, por último, el gracioso limón con su fruta de agradable olor y en forma de pechos de vírgenes.

  Luis de Camoes

  Beautiful, Hair, Yellow

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• The nut of this tree is hung high aloft, wrapped in a silk wrapper, which is enclosed in a case of sole leather, which again is packed in a mass of shock absorbing, vermin proof pulp, sealed up in a waterproof, ironwood case, and finally cased in a vegetable porcupine of spines, almost impregnable. There is no nut so protected; there is no nut in our woods to compare with it as food. What is a Chesnut?

  Luis de Camoes

  Vegetables, Nuts, Tree

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