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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
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
Scrap the UN," you'd said once. "Warring countries should just get a teenage daughter in the room.
— Rosamund Lupton
Tears are not arguments.
— Machado De Assis
Most of the shows I've worked on have aired three times and are in the dustbin of history.
— Mike White
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
I would like to learn how to do that--to recognize the gift of enough.
— Tom Montgomery Fate
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
Nothing could have been more imprudent or more natural than this reply. It reflected the ecstasy inspired by great crises.
— Machado De Assis
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
Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them.
— Machado De Assis
He sucked the chicken wing philosophically.
— Machado De Assis
If you think that being vegan is difficult, imagine how difficult it is for animals that you are not vegan.
— Gary L. Francione
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
After a stronghold has been made of the bones, it is covered with flesh and blood, and there dwell in it old age and death, pride and deceit.
— Friedrich Muller
The gilded spiral
Of longings within.
Our very own cathedral
That points persistently to heaven. — Scott Hastie
Of longings within.
Our very own cathedral
That points persistently to heaven. — Scott Hastie
It's the occasion that makes the revolution.
— Machado De Assis
In hoc signo vinces
— Machado De Assis