Source: Epitaph of a Small Winner
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Famous Machado de Assis Quotes
“There is nothing worse than giving the longest of legs to the smallest of ideas.”
Source: Dom Casmurro
“We kill time; time buries us.”
Source: The Posthumous Memoirs of Br?s Cubas
“A vida sem luta é um mar morto no centro do organismo universal.”
Source: Romances de Machado de Assis - Obras Completas [Ilustrado, Notas, Biografia com Análises e Críticas, Resumos e Estudos de Cada Obra] - Dom Casmurro, Brás Cubas, Quincas Borba e outros - Vol. I: Romance
Source: The Devil's Church and Other Stories
Source: The Devil's Church and Other Stories
Source: The Devil's Church and Other Stories
“Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them.”
Source: The Devil's Church and Other Stories
“Por que bonita, se coxa? Por que coxa, se bonita?”
Source: Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas
Source: Epitaph of a Small Winner
Source: Iaiá Garcia
Source: Dom Casmurro
“There is nothing in the world so monstrously vast as our indifference.”
Source: Epitaph of a Small Winner
“Tomorrow's sun is on it's way - a relentless sun, inscrutable like life.”
Source: The Devil's Church and Other Stories
“Out of the sighs of one generation are kneaded the hopes of the next.”
Source: The Psychiatrist, and Other Stories
“A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism.”
Source: The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas: A Novel