L'allegria va conservata nello champagne; mentre la cachaça tutt’al più consola dalle disgrazie, quando consola

En las plantaciones, los trabajadores casan hasta con un pedazo de palo si viste polleras. Para tener mujer en casa, para poder acostarse con ella, también para poder conversar. La mujer presta muchos servicios, usted ni siquiera se imagina. Ayuda hasta en la pollítica. Le da hijos a uno, impone respeto. Para lo demás, están las mujerzuelas

От однообразия устаешь, даже если это счастье. («Дона Флор и два ее мужа», Жоржи Амаду)

The best translations are always the ones in the language the author can't read.

They were mistaken if they thought he did not kill her because he loved her too much. At that moment Nacib did not love her. He did not hate her either. He beat her mechanically, as if to relax his nerves from the tension of suffering. He was empty like a vase without a flower. He felt a pain in his heart as if someone were slowly pushing a dagger into it. He felt neither hate nor love. Just pain" (366).

The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .