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Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.
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The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams -- this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness -- and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!
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There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.
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I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.
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There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
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El que lee mucho y anda mucho, ve mucho y sabe mucho.
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Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
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Thou hast seen nothing yet.
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Es natural condicion de las mujeres desdenar a quien las quiere y amar a quien las aborrece
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women
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Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
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Until death it is all life
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life
livving
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What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
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Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do in this life is to let himself die.
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Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
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A bad year and a bad month to all the backbiting bitches in the world!...
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Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
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It's up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they're going well ... For I've heard that what they call fortune is a flighty woman who drinks too much, and, what's more, she's blind, so she can't see what she's doing, and she doesn't know who she's knocking over or who she's raising up.
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Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side.
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for hope is always born at the same time as love...
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The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away...
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The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.
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A tooth is much more to be prized than a diamond.
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It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.
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There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct, Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man;
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Here lies a gentleman bold Who was so very brave He went to lengths untold, And on the brink of the grave Death had on him no hold. By the world he set small store-- He frightened it to the core-- Yet somehow, by Fate's plan,
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Confia en el tiempo, que suele dar dulces salidas a muchas amargas dificultades...
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All of that is true,' responded Don Quixote, 'but we cannot all be friars, and God brings His children to heaven by many paths: chivalry is a religion, and there are sainted knights in Glory.' Yes,' responded Sancho, 'but I've heard that there are more friars in heaven than knights errant.' That is true,' responded Don Quixote, 'because the number of religious is greater than the number of knights.' There are many who are errant,' said Sanc..
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What intelligent things you say sometimes ! One would think you had studied.
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The fault lies not with the mob, who demands nonsense, but with those who do not know how to produce anything else.
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A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.
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Muchos son los andantes," dijo Sancho. Muchos," respondio don Quijote, "pero pocos los que merecen nombre de caballeros."
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They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.
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windmills
quixote
stone
misery
misfortune
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without intelligence, there can be no humour.
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What is more dangerous than to become a poet? which is, as some say, an incurable and infectious disease.
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truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future.
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past
truth
depository
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To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain presumption; indeed they all seem to be perpetually changing and moving in a circular course. Spring is followed by summer, summer by autumn, and autumn by winter, which is again followed by spring, and so time continues its everlasting round. But the life of man is ever racing to its end, swifter than time itself, without hope of renewal, unless in the next th..
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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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Laughter distances us from that which is ugly and therefore potentially distressing, and indeed enables us to obtain paradoxical pleasure and therapeutic benefit from it.
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Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
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Senor, las tristezas no se hicieron para las bestias, sino para los hombres; pero si los hombres las sienten demasiado, se vuelven bestias...
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He is most blessed who loves the most, the freest who is most enslaved by love,
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time has more power to undo and change things than the human will.
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Have I not already told you', replied Don Quixote, 'that I intend to imitate Amadis, and to act the desperate, foolish, furious lover so as also to imitate the valiant Orlando, when he found signs by a spring that the fair Angelica had disgraced herself with Medoro, and the grief turned him mad, and he uprooted trees, sullied the waters of clear springs, slew shepherds, destroyed flocks, burned cottages, tore down houses, dragged away mares..
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