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The dictatorship of hate has by now completely vanquished the democracy of pleasure.
— Angelos Michalopoulos
The most basic Buddhist stance: sober examination of what lies before you, leaving aside all assumptions.
— Alan W. Watts
Bacamarte evidenced neither vanity nor modesty; he listened in silence, as impassive as a stone god.
— Machado De Assis
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
One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.
— Vladimir Lenin
A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism.
— Machado De Assis
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
We kill time; time buries us.
— Machado De Assis
To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them.
— Machado De Assis
If there's a reason for the way that life is I'd like to find it. After all, who's life is it?
— Gordon Lightfoot
Note to self: If you're trying not to have kids, don't marry a lady who is the Titan of motherhood.
— Rick Riordan
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
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
According to her watch it was shortly after three o'clock, and according to everything else it was night-time.
— Douglas Adams
Nothing could have been more imprudent or more natural than this reply. It reflected the ecstasy inspired by great crises.
— Machado De Assis
Visiting Specialty Books was like living in an episode of Extreme Hoarders: Bibliophiles.
— Molly Harper
Thank you for finally letting me love you.
— Alison G. Bailey
I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost ... but still, I was alive.
— J.K. Rowling
Prometheus. The truth unknown to man is the madness of him who proclaims it. Proceed, and have done.
— Machado De Assis
Out of the sighs of one generation are kneaded the hopes of the next.
— Machado De Assis
Tears are not arguments.
— Machado De Assis
He sucked the chicken wing philosophically.
— Machado De Assis
I can feel a cool breeze blowing around me.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
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
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.
— Henry David Thoreau
It's the occasion that makes the revolution.
— Machado De Assis
In hoc signo vinces
— Machado De Assis
Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them.
— Machado De Assis