Superb Sentences: Lygia Fagundes Telles

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

From the short story “Venha ver o pôr do sol” (“Come see the sunset”), originally published in 1988: “A beleza não está nem na luz da manhã nem na sombra da noite, está no crepúsculo, nesse meio tom, nessa ambiguidade.”

Beauty is not in the morning light nor in the night shadow,
it’s in the twilight, in that halftone, in that ambiguity.