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.

Lovers’ language, give me an exact and poetic comparison to say what those eyes of Capitu were like. No image comes to mind that doesn’t offend against the rules of good style, to say what...

A man’s eye serves as a photography to the invisible, as well as his ear serves as echo to the silence.

I am beginning to be sorry that I ever undertook to write this book. Not that it bores me; I have nothing else to do; indeed, it is a welcome distraction from eternity. But the...

…one of the roles of man is to shut his eyes and keep them shut to see if he can continue into the night of his old age the dream curtailed in the night of...

O Diabo, invejoso, fez o homem confundir fé com religião e amor com casamento.

In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making a contract with heaven is that intentions are valid currency.

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...

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

he 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...

Se os mortos vão depressa, os velhos ainda vão mais depressa que os mortos… Viva a mocidade!

Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes – they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes.

,,,we forget our good actions only slowly, and in fact never truly forget them.

To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them. Someday the sky would be emptied, but by then the earth would be a...

Não confunda o romance com a vida, ou viverá desgraçada.

I considered the case and realized that if something can exist in opinion without existing in reality, or exist in reality without existing in opinion, the conclusion is that of the two parallel lives, only...

Tomorrow’s sun is on it’s way – a relentless sun, inscrutable like life.