91 Quotes by Machado de Assis

Tem asas como as das águias;Nem pousa sobre o granito;Aspira para o infinito;Pede tudo e tudo quer!

We kill time; time buries us.

Tears are not arguments.

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.

Por que bonita, se coxa? Por que coxa, se bonita?

There is nothing in the world so monstrously vast as our indifference.

Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them.

A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism.

To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them. Someday the sky would be emptied, but by then the earth would be a constellation of musical scores.