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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