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
Por que bonita, se coxa? Por que coxa, se bonita? - Machado De Assis
Por que bonita, se coxa? Por que coxa, se bonita?
- Machado De Assis
We kill time; time buries us. - Machado De Assis
We kill time; time buries us.
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. - Machado De Assis
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.
Tomorrow's sun is on it's way - a relentless sun, inscrutable like life. - Machado De Assis
Tomorrow's sun is on it's way - a relentless sun, inscrutable like life.
There is nothing in the world so monstrously vast as our indifference. - Machado De Assis
There is nothing in the world so monstrously vast as our indifference.
There is nothing worse than giving the longest of legs to the smallest of ideas. - Machado De Assis
There is nothing worse than giving the longest of legs to the smallest of ideas.
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. - Machado De Assis
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.
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 … - Machado De Assis
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 …
A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism. - Machado De Assis
A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism.
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