Quotes from Dom Casmurro — Machado de Assis
1839–1908 Brazil
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Life is so beautiful that even the idea of death must be born before it can be realized.
Dom Casmurro (1899)
How many wicked intentions climb aboard a pure and innocent phrase, after it is already on its way! It is enough to make one suspect that lying is, many a time, as involuntary as breathing.
Dom Casmurro (1899)
Imagination has been the companion of my whole existence – lively, swift, restless, at times timid and balky, most often ready to devour plain upon plain in its course.
Dom Casmurro (1899)
Destiny is not only a dramatist, it is also its own stage manager. That is, it sets the entrances of the characters on scene, gives them letters and other objects, and produces the off-stage noises to go with the dialogue: thunder, a carriage, a shot.
Dom Casmurro (1899)