Getting text into another text

I want to get a List(Of String) of text blocks, however there is a problem:

{ --isso é um bloco;
  echo "Aqui tem um } no meio";}

And I would like to get this:

--isso é um bloco;
echo "Aqui tem um } no meio";

but it's coming back to my method:

--isso é um bloco;
echo "Aqui tem um 

And just over there, is there any way you can get multiple blocks except when they are within the "..." characters?

Here is my method code:

Dim tmpBlocks() As String = theFile.Split({"{"}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)
Dim Blocks As New List(Of String)

For i As Integer = 0 To tmpBlocks.Length - 1
    Blocks.Add(tmpBlocks(i).Split(New [String]() {"}"}, 
    StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)(0))
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' Blocks é a variável de cara bloco

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