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Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) was a Brazilian writer, poet, and novelist. He is known for cynical outlook in his work.

Wisdom & Quotes

  • Death is a phenomenon like life; perhaps the dead live.
- Esau and Jacob
  • It's the occasion that makes the revolution.
- Esau and Jacob
  • Out of the sighs of one generation are kneaded the hopes of the next.
- Education of a Stuffed Shirt
  • 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.
- Epitaph for a Small Winner
  • A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism.
- Epitaph for a Small Winner
  • We kill time; time buries us.
- Epitaph for a Small Winner
  • Vanity is the beginning of corruption.
- Dom Casmurro

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