Quotes by Machado de Assis

Machado de Assis

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

Fighting

Sea

Strive

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

Mars

Universal

Vida

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.

Dream

Kindness

Life

Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes – they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes.

Dream

Finishing

Lines

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.

Art

Balance

Evil

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.

Opinion

Reality

Two

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.

Heaven

Ordinary

Party

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

Banality

Men

Sex

It’s the occasion that makes the revolution.

Occasions

Revolution

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.

Men

Thinking

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Action

Argument

Art

Balance

Banality

Book

Crime

Dream

Evil

Fighting

Finishing

Generations

Giving

Government

Heaven

Ideas

Indifference

Individual

Kindness

Legs

Life

Lines

Mars

Men

Noses

Occasions

Opinion

Ordinary

Party

People

Political

Reality

Revolution

Sea

Sex

Sigh

Sky

Stars

Strive

Sun

Tears

Thinking

Tomorrow

Two

Universal

Vida

Waiting

Way

World

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Quotes by Machado de Assis

Machado de Assis

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

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

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.

Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes – they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes.

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.

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.

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.

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

It’s the occasion that makes the revolution.

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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