Let Pascal say that man is a thinking reed. He is wrong; man is a thinking erratum. Each … - Machado de Assis

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Being in love is something like poetry. Certainly, you can analyze and expound its various senses and intentions, but there is always something left over, mysteriously hovering between music and meaning.

Machado de Assis

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

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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

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.

Art, Balance, Evil, Felt

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

Fighting, Life, Organism, Sea, Strive, Universal

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

There is nothing worse than giving the longest of legs to the smallest of ideas.

Giving, Ideas, Legs, Longest, Nothing, Smallest