To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them.

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

As a child, Brazilian novelist Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (born June 21, 1839) was the only boy enrolled at an all girls school because his stepmother had a job there.

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