Top 28 Machado De Assis Quotes
#1. Love, my lads! And above all, love pretty, charming girls; they are the remedy for evil, they give a sweet smell to rottenness, they exchange life for death ... Love, my lads!
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#2. There is nothing worse than giving the longest of legs to the smallest of ideas.
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#3. He was happy because, after such a long study, experimentation, and struggle, he could at last affirm the ultimate truth: there never were and never would be any madmen in Itaguai or anywhere else.
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#6. He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil.
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#7. He discriminated against neither the avaricious nor the prodigal: both were committed to the asylum; this led people to say that the alienist's concept of madness included practically everybody.
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#8. Prometheus. The truth unknown to man is the madness of him who proclaims it. Proceed, and have done.
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#9. His eyes, blind to external reality but highly perceptive in the realm of the inner life, rose from the book to the ceiling and returned to the book.
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#11. The conclusion, therefore, is that there are two major forces in society: love, which multiplies the species, and the nose, which subordinates it to the individual. Procreation, equilibrium.
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#12. A man's eye serves as a photography to the invisible, as well as his ear serves as echo to the silence.
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#13. Nothing could have been more imprudent or more natural than this reply. It reflected the ecstasy inspired by great crises.
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#14. He had found in himself the perfect, undeniable case of insanity. He possessed wisdom, patience, tolerance, truthfulness, loyalty, and moral fortitude - all the qualities that go to make an utter madman.
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#15. Till now, madness has been thought a small island in an ocean of sanity. I am beginning to suspect that it is not an island at all but a continent.
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#16. ,,,we forget our good actions only slowly, and in fact never truly forget them.
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#17. Bacamarte evidenced neither vanity nor modesty; he listened in silence, as impassive as a stone god.
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#19. In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making a contract with heaven is that intentions are valid currency.
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#20. Let Pascal say that man is a thinking reed. He is wrong; man is a thinking erratum. Each period in life is a new edition that corrects the preceding one and that in turn will be corrected by the next, until publication of the definitive edition, which the publisher donates to the worms.
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#21. To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them.
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#22. A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism.
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#23. Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them.
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#25. One of the roles of man is to shut his eyes and keep them shut to see if he can continue into the night of his old age the dream curtailed in the night of his youth.
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#26. Out of the sighs of one generation are kneaded the hopes of the next.
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#27. Each person is worth the value put on them by the affection of others, and that is where popular wisdom has found that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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#28. Do not feel badly if your kindness is rewarded with ingratitude; it is better to fall from your dream clouds than from a third-story window.
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