Top Machado de Assis Quotes - Quotesmemo.com

Machado de Assis Biography

Machado de Assis

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (Portuguese: [ʒwɐˈkĩ mɐˈɾi.ɐ mɐˈʃadu dʒi ɐˈsis]), often known by his surnames as Machado de Assis, Machado, or Bruxo do Cosme Velho (21 June 1839 – 29 September 1908), was a pioneer Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright and short story writer. Widely regarded as the greatest writer of Brazilian literature, nevertheless he did not gain widespread popularity outside Brazil in his own lifetime. In 1897 he founded and became the first President of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. He was multilingual, having taught himself French, English, German and Greek in later life.

Read about Machado de Assis in Wikipedia

Random Authors

Machado de Assis Quotes

Por que bonita, se coxa? Por que coxa, se bonita?

Bonita, Coxa, Por, Que

A vida sem luta é um mar morto no centro do organismo universal.

Centro, Mar, Mars, Morto, Universal, Vida

There is nothing in the world so monstrously vast as our indifference.

Indifference, Monstrously, Nothing, Vast, World

To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them. Someday the sky would be emptied, but by then the earth would be a constellation of musical scores

Sky, Somebody, Stars, Waiting

In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making a contract with heaven is that intentions are valid currency.

Currency, Heaven, Making, Ordinary, Party

Let Pascal say that man is a thinking reed. He is wrong; man is a thinking erratum. Each period in life is a new edition that corrects the preceding one and that in turn will be corrected by the next, until publication of the definitive edition, which the publisher donates to the worms.

Man, Men, Next, Period, Preceding, Thinking

Tomorrow's sun is on it's way - a relentless sun, inscrutable like life.

Inscrutable, Life, Sun, Tomorrow, Way

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.

Badly, Dream, Kindness, Life

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

Fighting, Life, Organism, Sea, Strive, Universal

The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There must be one – everything depends on the circumstances, a rule applicable as much to literary style as to life. Each word tugs another one along, one idea another, and that is how books, governments and revolutions are made – some even say that is how Nature created her species.

Book, Government, Grip, Idea, Style, Writing

It's the occasion that makes the revolution.

Occasion, Occasions, Revolution

In woman sex corrects banality, in men it aggravates it.

Aggravates, Banality, Men, Sex

Tears are not arguments.

Argument, Arguments, Political, Tears