“There he is, bent over the page, with a monocle in his right eye, wholly devoted to the noble but rugged task… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
“I am beginning to be sorry that I ever undertook to write this book. Not that it bores me; I have nothing… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
“Observe now with what skill, with what art, I make the biggest transition in this book. Observe: my delirium began in the… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the reader is astonished by the frankness with which I expose and emphasize my mediocrity; let him remember that frankness is… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
“The reader, like his fellows, doubtless prefers action to reflection, and doubtless he is wholly in the right. So we shall get… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
“A future priest, I faced her as before an altar: one of her cheeks was the Epistle and the other the Gospel.… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
“Cotrim, who was present, said: “Those came who had a genuine interest in you and in us. The eighty would have come only as… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
“Nada há definitivo no mundo; nem o infortúnio nem a prosperidade. O que a tua imaginação supõe estar perdido, acha-se apenas transviado ou oculto...” — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
“…like the horse in the old ballads, which Romanticism found in the medieval castle and left in the streets of our own century. The… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
“(...) a pior filosofia é a do choramingas que se deita à margem do rio para o fim de lastimar o curso incessante das… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
“O casamento é a pior ou a melhor coisa do mundo; pura questão de temperamento.” — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
“The next day, he read to me a freshly composed dirge in which the circumstances of his wife’s death and burial were commemorated. He… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
The conclusion, therefore, is that there are two major forces in society: love, which multiplies the species, and the nose, which subordinates it to… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
“Prometheus. The truth unknown to man is the madness of him who proclaims it. Proceed, and have done.” — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them. Someday the sky… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
“...one of the roles of man is to shut his eyes and keep them shut to see if he can continue into the night… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
