Quotes by : 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.....

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

In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the....

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

I considered the case and realized that if something can exist in opinion without existing in reality,....

,,,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.....

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

Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them.

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