“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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“ A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Bed of Roses
“Fine. Then I love you, my little Night Crawler.”
― Veronica Rossi, quote from Into the Still Blue
“The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying nothing was more amendable, and over time I'd come to see that it was usually your best course of action.”
― Karen Joy Fowler, quote from We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“In the end, the only one you can ever really please is yourself. How others feel is up to them.”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from See Me
“Усещам, че татко въздъхна с облекчение, въпреки че не се чува никакъв шум. Истината е, че атмосферата се разведрява винаги когато майка ми излезе от някоя стая, и се напряга всеки път, когато влезе някъде – така е. Майка ми е страхотен човек, обожавам я и бих дал всичко, за да е щастлива и спокойна, и ми се струва, че татко мисли абсолютно същото. Очите ни се срещат за миг над масата, на която сме закусили, си го казват. После татко става и започва да раздига масата, като си подсвирква, а аз се връщам в стаята си, да се облека.”
― Nancy Huston, quote from Fault Lines
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