Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, the well-known Machado de Assis, marked the history of Brazilian literature with the large number of titles published. The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas (1881) and Dom Casmurro (1889) are his most popular works.
One of the pioneers of realism in Brazil, in addition to being founder and president of Brazilian Academy of Letters, has a career marked by great acts, as well as his more than 600 published chronicles.
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Through the use of irony and metalanguage, Machado de Assis criticized the values of the bourgeoisie and discussed social ascension. See below some Quotes by Machado de Assis about society, friendship and love!
God, for man's happiness, invented faith and love. The Devil, envious, made man confuse faith with religion and love with marriage.
Each one knows how to love in his own way; the way, it doesn't matter; the essential thing is that you know how to love.
Forgetting is a necessity. Life is a slate, on which destiny, in order to write a new case, needs to erase the written case.
He is not a friend who flaunts friendship: he is a drug dealer; friendship is felt, not said...
Your eyes are my books.
What book is there better,
Which is better to read
The love page?
There are things that best say silent.
You don't need to run so much, whatever needs to be yours will come to you.
Defects do not hurt, when there is will and power to correct them.
I don't like tears, even in women's eyes, beautiful or not; are confessions of weakness, and I was born bored with the weak. After all, women are less weak than men, or more patient, more capable of suffering pain and adversity...
Happy the dogs, who by scent discover friends.
I like eyes that smile, gestures that apologize, touches that know how to talk and silences that declare themselves.
The gratitude of the one who receives a benefit is always less than the pleasure of the one who gives it.
Money doesn't buy happiness - for those who don't know what to do with it.
Ingratitude is a right that should not be used.
Believe in yourself, but don't always doubt others.
Don't raise the sword over the head of the one who asked you for forgiveness.
Lying is often as involuntary as breathing.
Tears are not arguments.
Life is full of obligations that we fulfill no matter how much we want to infringe them shamelessly.
Thoughts are worth and live by exact or new observation, by acute or profound reflection; no less do they want originality, simplicity and the grace of saying.
You don't love the same woman twice.
Fear is a prejudice of the nerves. It is a prejudice, it dissolves – simple reflection is enough.
The best definition of love is not worth a kiss from a girlfriend.
The heart is the region of the unexpected.
The Master must be half serious to give authority to the lesson and half laughing to obtain forgiveness of correction.
Each season of life is an edition, which corrects the previous one, and which will also be corrected, until the definitive edition!
Some things are born from others, they curl up, untie, get confused, get lost, and time goes on without losing itself...
It is a great thing to have received from heaven a particle of wisdom, the gift of finding the relationships of things, the faculty of comparing them and the talent of concluding!
An importunate thing is the happiness of others when we are the victim of some misfortune.
Shakespeare is not commented upon, admired.
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