91 Quotes by Machado de Assis

Assim vai a vida humana: um nada basta para complicar tudo.

He sucked the chicken wing philosophically.

The most singular thing is that, if the clock stopped, I wound it, so that it did not miss a tick, and I could count all my lost moments.

My youth was reacting, it was necessary to live.

With that, the years slipped away, though not her beauty, because she had never had any.

I have noticed that the adulation of women is not the same as that of men. The latter smacks of servility; the first can be confused with affection.

Ambition, since it is an eagle, cracked the egg on that occasion, and unveiled the bright, penetrating eye inside.

I let myself go to the to and fro of events and days, sometimes bewildered, sometimes apathetic, between ambition and discouragement.

To the Victor, the Potatoes!