Machado de Assis quotes:

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  • A vida sem luta é um mar morto no centro do organismo universal.

  • A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • In woman sex corrects banality, in men it aggravates it.

  • 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

  • Out of the sighs of one generation are kneaded the hopes of the next.

  • Por que bonita, se coxa? Por que coxa, se bonita?

  • Tears are not arguments.

  • There is nothing in the world so monstrously vast as our indifference.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them.

  • There is nothing worse than giving the longest of legs to the smallest of ideas.

  • Tomorrow's sun is on it's way - a relentless sun, inscrutable like life.

  • We kill time; time buries us.

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