Amor Quote by Machado de Assis

“Quem escapa do perigo vive a vida com outra intensidade.”

— Machado de Assis

“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

“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

“Tudo é música, meu amigo.”

— Machado de Assis

“…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

“(...) 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

“O casamento é a pior ou a melhor coisa do mundo; pura questão de temperamento.”

— Machado de Assis

“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

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

“Prometheus. The truth unknown to man is the madness of him who proclaims it. Proceed, and have done.”

— Machado de Assis

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

“...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