“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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“Hay, efectivamente, pasiones que se encauzan mal o bien, según se quiera. Dos personas se confían a la táctica del sentimiento, hablan en vez de actuar y se baten en campo abierto en lugar de poner un cerco. Así se cansan a menudo de sí mismas al extenuar sus deseos en el vacío. Dos enamorados se dan entonces tiempo para reflexionar y juzgarse. Frecuentemente pasiones que habían entrado en campaña con las banderas desplegadas, pimpantes, con un ardor que lo arrollaba todo a su paso, acaban por volver a sus puestos sin haber logrado la victoria, avergonzadas, desarmadas y atontadas por su vano estruendo. Tales fatalidades resultan explicables en ocasiones por la timidez de la juventud y por las dilaciones de que gustan las mujeres que se inician, pues esta especie de mutuo engaño no se da ni en los fatuos duchos en la práctica, ni en las coquetas habituadas a los ardides de la pasión.”
― Honoré de Balzac, quote from Lost Illusions
“It is axiomatic that one death is a tragedy, a thousand is a statistic.”
― Barbara Demick, quote from Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
“I want to know you. I want to know what it is that made you cry, but more than that, I want to know what I have to do to make you happy again.”
― Lisa De Jong, quote from When It Rains
“Don't you dare leave me. I swear to God, I will follow you into hell if I have to and drag you back by the hair."
~Dragos”
― Thea Harrison, quote from Dragon Bound
“—I probably shouldn’t tell you this, I said.
—Kay-Kay, those are my six favorite words in the English language.”
― Amor Towles, quote from Rules of Civility
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