Machado de Assis Quotes
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It's the occasion that makes the revolution.
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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 of the greatest evil.
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We kill time; time buries us.
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There is nothing in the world so monstrously vast as our indifference.
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Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes – they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes.
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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 heaven is that intentions are valid currency.
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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 conclusion is that of the two parallel lives, only opinion is necessary – not reality, which is only a secondary consideration.
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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 would be emptied, but by then the earth would be a constellation of musical scores
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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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The conclusion, therefore, is that there are two major forces in society: love, which multiplies the species, and the nose, which subordinates it to the individual. Procreation, equilibrium.
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There is nothing worse than giving the longest of legs to the smallest of ideas.
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Out of the sighs of one generation are kneaded the hopes of the next.
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Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them.
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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 that corrects the preceding one and that in turn will be corrected by the next, until publication of the definitive edition, which the publisher donates to the worms.
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Tears are not arguments.
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A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism.
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In woman sex corrects banality, in men it aggravates it.
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Por que bonita, se coxa? Por que coxa, se bonita?
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Tomorrow's sun is on it's way - a relentless sun, inscrutable like life.