Quotes by : Machado de Assis

Till now, madness has been thought a small island in an ocean of sanity. I am beginning to suspect that....

The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance.....

Lovers' language, give me an exact and poetic comparison to say what those eyes of Capitu were like.....

O Diabo, invejoso, fez o homem confundir fé com religião e amor com casamento.

Nothing could have been more imprudent or more natural than this reply. It reflected the ecstasy inspired....

Tomorrow’s sun is on it’s way – a relentless sun, inscrutable like life.

,,,we forget our good actions only slowly, and in fact never truly forget them.

A man's eye serves as a photography to the invisible, as well as his ear serves as echo to the silence.....

Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes – they content themselves with thick....

He discriminated against neither the avaricious nor the prodigal: both were committed to the asylum this....