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Machado De Assis quotes: Bacamarte evidenced neither vanity nor modesty; he listened in silence, as impassive as a stone god.

Bacamarte evidenced neither vanity nor modesty; he listened in silence, as impassive as a stone god.

Machado De Assis quotes: There is nothing worse than giving the longest of legs to the smallest of ideas.

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

Machado De Assis quotes: Till now, madness has been thought a small island in an ocean of sanity. I am beginning to suspect that it is not an island at all but a continent.

Till now, madness has been thought a small island in an ocean of sanity. I am beginning to suspect that it is not an island at all but a continent.

Machado De Assis quotes: A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism.

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

Machado De Assis quotes: A man's eye serves as a photography to the invisible, as well as his ear serves as echo to the silence.

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

Machado De Assis quotes: We kill time; time buries us.

We kill time; time buries us.

Machado De Assis quotes: To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them.

To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them.

Machado De Assis quotes: Tears are not arguments.

Tears are not arguments.

Machado De Assis quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Nothing could have been more imprudent or more natural than this reply. It reflected the ecstasy inspired by great crises.

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

Machado De Assis quotes: Prometheus. The truth unknown to man is the madness of him who proclaims it. Proceed, and have done.

Prometheus. The truth unknown to man is the madness of him who proclaims it. Proceed, and have done.

Machado De Assis quotes: Out of the sighs of one generation are kneaded the hopes of the next.

Out of the sighs of one generation are kneaded the hopes of the next.

Machado De Assis quotes: Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them.

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

Machado De Assis quotes: He sucked the chicken wing philosophically.

He sucked the chicken wing philosophically.

Machado De Assis quotes: ,,,we forget our good actions only slowly, and in fact never truly forget them.

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

Machado De Assis quotes: His eyes, blind to external reality but highly perceptive in the realm of the inner life, rose from the book to the ceiling and returned to the book.

His eyes, blind to external reality but highly perceptive in the realm of the inner life, rose from the book to the ceiling and returned to the book.

Machado De Assis quotes: It's the occasion that makes the revolution.

It's the occasion that makes the revolution.

Machado De Assis quotes: In hoc signo vinces

In hoc signo vinces