Machado De Assis Quotes
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.
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.
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.
Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes – they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes.
Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them.
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.
Nothing could have been more imprudent or more natural than this reply. It reflected the ecstasy inspired by great crises.
Tomorrow’s sun is on it’s way – a relentless sun, inscrutable like life.
, , , we forget our good actions only slowly, and in fact never truly forget them.
A man's eye serves as a photography to the invisible, as well as his ear serves as echo to the silence.
Till now, madness has been thought a small island in an ocean of sanity. I am beginning to suspect that it is not an island at all but a continent.
...one of the roles of man is to shut his eyes and keep them shut to see if he can continue into the night of his old age the dream curtailed in the night of his youth.