Imagine a man between thirty-eight and forty, tall, slim, and pale. His clothes, except for their style, looked as if they'd escaped from the Babylonian captivity. The hat was a contemporary of one of Gessler's. Imagine now a frock coat broader than the needs of his frame--or, literally, that person's bones. The fringe had disappeared some time ago, of the eight original buttons, three were left. The brown drill trousers had two strong knee patches, while the cuffs had been chewed by the heels of boots that bore no pity or polish. About his neck the ends of a tie of two faded colors floated, gripping a week-old collar. I think he was also wearing a dark silk vest, torn in places and unbuttoned.
"I'll bet you don't know me, my good Dr. Cubas," he said.
"I can't recall..."
"I'm Borba, Quincas Borba.
Tag: clothing quincas-borba
...Love, my lads! And above all, love pretty, charming girls; they are the remedy for evil, they give a sweet smell to rottenness, they exchange life for death...Love, my lads!
Machado de AssisTag: love
...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 his youth.
Machado de Assis,,,we forget our good actions only slowly, and in fact never truly forget them.
Machado de AssisTag: memory acts-of-goodness
Each person is worth the value put on them by the affection of others, and that is where popular wisdom has found that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Machado de AssisTag: esteem
Prometheus. The truth unknown to man is the madness of him who proclaims it. Proceed, and have done.
Machado de AssisLet 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.
Machado de AssisPurifica o teu coração antes de permitires que o amor entre nele, pois até o mel mais doce azeda num recipiente sujo.
Machado de AssisDeus, para a felicidade do homem, inventou a fé e o amor. O Diabo, invejoso, fez o homem confundir fé com religião e amor com casamento.
Machado de AssisHe 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.
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