Occupation: Novelist Birth: June 21, 1839 Death: September 29, 1908
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..
There is nothing worse than giving the longest of legs to the smallest of ideas..
Por que bonita, se coxa? Por que coxa, se bonita?.
A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism..
The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There must be one – everything depends ….
Tomorrow's sun is on it's way - a relentless sun, inscrutable like life..
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..
There is nothing in the world so monstrously vast as our indifference..
We kill time; time buries us..
In woman sex corrects banality, in men it aggravates it..
A vida sem luta é um mar morto no centro do organismo universal..
It's the occasion that makes the revolution..
Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes – they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes..
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 ….
I considered the case and realized that if something can exist in opinion without existing in reality, or exist in reality without existing in opinio….
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, ….
The conclusion, therefore, is that there are two major forces in society: love, which multiplies the species, and the nose, which subordinates it to ….
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 ….
Out of the sighs of one generation are kneaded the hopes of the next..
Tears are not arguments..
Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them..