Clouds Quote by Machado de Assis

“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.” quote by Machado de Assis — Download Open image

“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.”

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“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...”

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“Tudo é música, meu amigo.”

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“…like the horse in the old ballads, which Romanticism found in the medieval castle and left in the streets of our own century. The Romanticists rode the poor best until he was so nearly dead that he finally lay down in the gutter, where the realists found him, his flesh eaten away by sores and worms, and, out of pity,…

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“(...) a pior filosofia é a do choramingas que se deita à margem do rio para o fim de lastimar o curso incessante das…

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

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“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 read it in a voice quavering with emotion, and the hand that held the paper was trembling. When he had finished, he asked me whether the verses were worthy of the treasure that he had lost.…

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

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To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them. Someday the sky…

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