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There is only one genuine misfortune: not to be born.

Machado de Assis

Epitaph of a Small Winner (1881)

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There is only one genuine misfortune: not to be born.

There is only one genuine misfortune: not to be born.

There is only one genuine misfortune: not to be born.

There is only one genuine misfortune: not to be born.

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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

Machado de Assis

Machado de Assis

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Born: June 21, 1839

Died: September 29, 1908 (aged 69)

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