Superb Sentences: Mário Quintana

A series of beautiful phrases, sentences, and excerpts from Brazilian literature leading up to Brazil’s National Day of the Book on October 29.

This is the entirety of the poem “Dupla Delícia” (“Double Delight”), first published in Caderno H (“Notebook H”) in 1973: “O livro traz a vantagem de a gente poder estar só e ao mesmo tempo acompanhado.”

Books have the advantage of our being able to be alone
and accompanied at the same time.