“Love makes man spiritual – and woman material.”

—  José Maria Eça de Queiroz , book José Matias

O amor espiritualiza o homem – e materializa a mulher.
"José Matias" (1897), collected in Contos (1902); translation by Luís Marques from The Yellow Sofa & Three Portraits (1993) p. 145.

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