Machado de Assis Quotes
- In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making a contract with…
- There is nothing in the world so monstrously vast as our indifference.
- Tomorrow's sun is on it's way - a relentless sun, inscrutable like life.
- Out of the sighs of one generation are kneaded the hopes of the next.
- Do not feel badly if your kindness is rewarded with ingratitude; it is better to fall from your dream clouds than from a third-story window.
- It's the occasion that makes the revolution.
- A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism.
- Tears are not arguments.
- I considered the case and realized that if something can exist in opinion without existing in reality, or exist in reality without existing in opinion,…
- The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There…
- Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes – they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes.
- Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them.
- To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them. Someday the sky would…
- Por que bonita, se coxa? Por que coxa, se bonita?
- Let Pascal say that man is a thinking reed. He is wrong; man is a thinking erratum. Each period in life is a new edition…
- He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out…