“O maior pecado, depois do pecado, é a publicação do pecado.”
― Machado de Assis, quote from Quincas Borba
“Ouça-me este conselho: em política, não se perdoa nem se esquece nada.”
― Machado de Assis, quote from Quincas Borba
“(...) era tão diversa de si mesma, ora isto, ora aquilo, que os dias iam passando sem acordo fixo, nem desengano perpétuo.”
― Machado de Assis, quote from Quincas Borba
“As estrelas são ainda menos lindas que os seus olhos, e afinal nem sei mesmo o que elas sejam; Deus, que as pôs tão alto, é porque não poderão ser vistas de perto, sem perder muito da formosura... Mas os seus olhos, não; estão aqui, ao pé de mim, grandes, luminosos, mais luminosos que o céu...”
― Machado de Assis, quote from Quincas Borba
Machado de Assis
Born place: in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Born date June 21, 1839
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“But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.'
'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.”
― Voltaire, quote from Candide: or, Optimism
“Every human being occupies a space at the dead center of his or her own universe.”
― Graeme Cameron, quote from Normal
“He gave up. He'd been feeling like giving up for a long, long time. I guess it's maturity, they say it always gets you in the end. I don't seem to have any more principles left, so it's got to be maturity... A broken man, I guess that's what you become, the moment you are no longer a kid.”
― Romain Gary, quote from The Ski Bum
“Имя его было Акакий Акакиевич. Может быть, читателю оно покажется несколько странным и выисканным, но можно уверить, что его никак не искали, а что сами собою случились такие обстоятельства, что никак нельзя было дать другого имени, и это произошло именно вот как. Родился Акакий Акакиевич против ночи, если только не изменяет память, на 23 марта. Покойница матушка, чиновница и очень хорошая женщина, расположилась, как следует, окрестить ребенка. Матушка еще лежала на кровати против дверей, а а по правую руку стоял кум, превосходнейший человек, Иван Иванович Ерошкин, служивший столоначальником в сенате, и кума, жена квартального офицера, женщина редких добродетелей, Арина Семеновна Белобрюшкова. Родильнице предоставили на выбор любое из трех, какое она хочет выбрать: Моккия, Соссия, или назвать ребенка во имя мученика Хоздазата. "Нет, -- подумала покойница, -- имена-то все такие". Чтобы угодить ей, развернули календарь в другом месте; вышли опять три имени: Трифилий, Дула и Варахасий. "Вот это наказание, -- проговорила старуха, -- какие всё имена; я, право, никогда и не слыхивала таких. Пусть бы еще Варадат или Варух, а то Трифилий и Варахасий". Еще переворотили страницу -- вышли: Павсикахий и Вахтисий. "Ну, уж я вижу, -- сказала старуха, -- что, видно, его такая судьба. Уж если так, пусть лучше будет он называться, как и отец его. Отец был Акакий, так пусть и сын будет Акакий”
― Nikolai Gogol, quote from The Overcoat
“Who's Thyrza?" Molly asked.
"What? Oh, some World War II femme fatale. Amelia Beauregard's boyfriend ran away with her."
"That was my grandmother's name.”
― Kirsten Miller, quote from The Darkness Dwellers
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