G. Marques

Machado de Assis' most famous lines

1. 1 To the worm who first gnawed the cold flesh of my corpse I dedicate, as a fond remembrance, these posthumous memoirs.
2. 2 The greatest sin, after the sin itself, is making the sin public.
3. 3 Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans bonfires.