Jorge Amado Quotes

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

  Jorge Amado

  Love Is, Enough, Proven

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

  Jorge Amado

  World, Surprise

  Jorge Amado (1988). “Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon”

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• He owned a whole world full of memories, of lovely moments relived and happy recollections. I'm not saying he was happy or that he didn't suffer. He suffered very much, but he did not despair; he still drew nourishment from what he had been given. But the sadness never left him. Happiness needs more than memories of the past to feed on; it also needs dreams of the future.

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  Dream, Memories, Sadness

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• That's the very reason why love is eternal, because it is forever renewed. Passions die, love remains.

  Jorge Amado

  Passion, Love Is, Forever

  "Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon".

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• 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.

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  Hero, Character, People

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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.

  Jorge Amado

  Believe, Writing, Might

  Jorge Amado, Barbara Shelby Merello, Moacyr Scliar (2003). “Tieta: The Goat Girl, Or the Return of the Prodigal Daughter, a Melodramatic Serial Novel in Five Sensational Episodes, with a Touching Epilogue : Thrills and Suspense!”, p.10, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Life was good, one had only to live it.

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  Jorge Amado (1988). “Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon”

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• I believe that she has the kind of magic that causes revolutions and promotes great discoveries. There’s nothing I enjoy more than to observe Gabriela in the midst of a group of people. Do you know what she reminds me of? A fragrant rose in a bouquet of artificial flowers.

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  Believe, Flower, Discovery

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• Night was running ahead of itself.

  Jorge Amado

  Running, Night

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

  Jorge Amado

  World, Wonderful, Terrible

  Jorge Amado (1988). “Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon”

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• ...it is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary proofs or on the evidence of his own eyes, which is always overestimated.

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  Eye, Documentaries, Proof

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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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  Husband, Father, School

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• I am like my characters - sometimes even the female ones.

  Jorge Amado

  Character, Female, Sometimes

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