Famous 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. – 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

  • 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

  • Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them. – Machado de Assis

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

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

    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

  • 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

    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

  • ,,,we forget our good actions only slowly, and in fact never truly forget them. – Machado de Assis

    ,,,we forget our good actions only slowly, and in fact never truly forget them.– Machado de Assis

  • Tomorrow’s sun is on it’s way -“ a relentless sun, inscrutable like life. – Machado de Assis

    Tomorrow’s sun is on it’s way -“ a relentless sun, inscrutable like life.– Machado de Assis

  • Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes -“ they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes. – Machado de Assis

    Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes -“ they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes.– Machado de Assis