“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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“If I have learned anything over this last year it’s that you have to live your own life too so that if something we hoped for doesn’t work out, you still have two legs to stand on, you still have your own path.”
― T.S. Krupa, quote from Safe & Sound
“No segundo casamento só não houve namoro, e com razão, pois não fica bem a uma viúva namorar, numa esquina ou no esconso de uma porta em deboche e agarramentos: beijinhos, abracinhos, pega aqui, pega acolá, mão nos peitos, correndo pelas coxas. Descarações e sem-vergonhices toleráveis em namoro de donzela se são sérias as intenções do namorado, dando-lhe direito a alguns avanços; mas insuportáveis e desmoralizantes em se tratando de viúva.”
― Jorge Amado, quote from Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
“No better is the propensity, very popular nowadays, to brand supporters of other ideologies as lunatics. Psychiatrists”
― Ludwig von Mises, quote from Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
“The portrait of his past was partially erased by God and he is searching for those erased portions.”
― Durgesh Satpathy, quote from Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory
“writes within it, is erudite, stately, illuminating. The iconoclasm need not be loud and messy, I can almost hear him saying,”
― John Williams, quote from Butcher's Crossing
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