Machado de Assis Quotes

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.

Machado de Assis

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• Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

  

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• I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.

  

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• I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.

  

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• My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.

  

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• I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.

  

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• The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

  

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• In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.

  

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• The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.

  

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  • Truth
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• 'YouKu' means what's best and what's cool in Chinese. So, the whole product philosophy really revolves around how to help users, from a massive video database, finds what's best and what's cool.

  

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  • Help
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• Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.

  

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  • Career
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• I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.

  

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  • Me
  • Always
  • Spirit

• I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.

  

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  • Important
  • Society
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• When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.

  

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• I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.

  

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• I've always wanted to tackle the casual part of dressing. Knits to me are always just easy. I've fantasized about packing a suitcase of only knits: You just throw them in, roll them in a ball, pull them out and they still look fabulous.

  

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• I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.

  

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  • Family
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  • Parents

• Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods, -- surely showing how perfect is the meeting of extremes.

  

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• Any man who goes into anything in life and does it better than the average will have a successful life. If he does it worse than the average, his life will not be successful. And no business can exist in which success cannot be won on that basis.

  

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  • Life
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• If I see three oranges, I have to juggle. And if I see two towers, I have to walk.

  

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• What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

  

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  • Women
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  • Reality

• The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Life
  • Man
  • Light

• 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.

  

  Machado de Assis
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Fall