“The best definition of love in the world is not worth one kiss from the girl you love.”

—  Machado de Assis, book The Mirror (short story)

A melhor definição do amor não vale um beijo de moça namorada.
"O Espelho", from Papéis avulses (1882); William L. Grossman and Helen Caldwell (trans.) The Psychiatrist, and Other Stories (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966) p. 60.

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