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

- Machado De Assis

We kill time; time buries us.

- 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.

- Machado De Assis

Tomorrow's sun is on it's way - a relentless sun, inscrutable like life.

- Machado De Assis

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

- Machado De Assis

There is nothing worse than giving the longest of legs to the smallest of ideas.

- 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.

- Machado De Assis

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

- 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 …

- Machado De Assis