"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."

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Source : Machado de Assis (1952). “Epitaph of a Small Winner”

Machado de Assis

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