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I have never died all my life
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La pluma es la lengua del alma: cuales fueren los conceptos que en ella se engendraren, tales seran sus escritos.
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Woman is made of fragile glass; but do not put her to the test to see if she will break, for that might come to pass. She is too apt to shatter, and wisdom is surely ended if what can ne'er be mended is put in the way of danger. What I say to you is true, and let us all agree : wherever Danae may be, showers of gold are there, too.
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En un lugar de la Mancha de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme...
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It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds. I came across a rosary of angry, wretched men, I did with them wh..
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the praise of the wise few is more important than the mockery of the foolish many,
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Oh Senor" said the niece. "Your grace should send them to be burned (books), just like all the rest, because it's very likely that my dear uncle, having been cured of the chivalric disease, will read these and want to become a shepherd and wander through the woods and meadows singing and playing and, what would be even worse, become a poet, and that, they say, is an incurable and contagious disease."
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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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To dream the impossible dream, that is my quest.
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For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.
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No milagro, milagro, sino industria, industria!
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Cambiar el mundo, amigo Sancho, que no es locura ni utopia, sino Justicia!". Don Quijote."
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The reason of the unreasonableness which against my reason is wrought, doth so weaken my reason, as with all reason I do justly complain on your beauty.
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The fear thou art in, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "prevents thee from seeing or hearing correctly, for one of the effects of fear is to derange the senses and make things appear different from what they are; if thou art in such fear, withdraw to one side and leave me to myself, for alone I suffice to bring victory to that side to which I shall give my aid;" and so saying he gave Rocinante the spur, and putting the lance in rest, shot down th..
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Je cherche dans la mort la vie, Dans la prison la liberte, La sante dans la maladie, Dans le traitre la loyaute. Mais mon infortune est si grande Que le destin impatiente, Si l'impossible je demande, M'a le possible refuse.
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Where one door shuts, another opens.
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Que gigantes?
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but once more I say do as you please, for we women are born to this burden of being obedient to our husbands, though they be blockheads
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marriage
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I've always heard the old folks say that if you don't know how to enjoy good luck when it comes, you shouldn't complain if it passes you by.
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Sancho, just as you want people to believe what you have seen in the sky, I want you to believe what I saw in the Cave of Montesinos. And that is all I have to say.
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He who sees a play that is regular, and answerable to the rules of poetry, is pleased with the comic part, informed by the serious, surprised at the variety of accidents, improved by the language, warned by the frauds, instructed by examples, incensed against vice, and enamoured with virtue; for a good play must cause all these emotions in the soul of him that sees it, though he were never so insensible and unpolished.
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So it isn't the masses who are to blame for demanding rubbish, but rather those who aren't capable of providing them with anything else.
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Let's turn now to the citation of authors, found in other books and missing in yours. The solution to this is very simple, because all you have to do is find a book that cites them all from A to Z, as you put it. Then you'll put that same alphabet in your book, and though the lie is obvious it doesn't matter, since you'll have little need to use them; perhaps someone will be naive enough to believe you have consulted all of them in your pla..
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all human efforts to communicate--even in the same language--are equally utopian, equally luminous with value, and equally worth the doing.
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There is a remedy for everything except death," responded Don Quixote,"
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En resolucion, el se enfrasco tanto en su lectura, que se le pasaban las noches leyendo de claro en claro, y los dias de turbio en turbio, y asi, del poco dormir y del mucho leer, se le seco el cerebro, de manera que vino a perder el juicio. Llenosele la fantasia de todo aquello que leia en los libros, asi de encantamientos, como de pendencias, batallas, desafios, heridas, requiebros, amores, tormentas y disparates imposibles, y asentosele ..
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everything I have done, am doing, and shall do follows the dictates of reason and the laws of chivalry,
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By the Blessed Virgin ! Is it possible that your grace is so thickheaded and so short on brains that you cannot see that what I'm telling you is the absolute truth.
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No hay libro tan malo [...] que no tenga algo bueno.
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My reason is now free and clear, rid of the dark shadows of ignorance that my unhappy constant study of those detestable books of chivalry cast over it. Now I see through their absurdities and deceptions, and it only grieves me that this destruction of my illusions has come so late that it leaves me no time to make some amends by reading other books that might be a light to my soul.
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If all, or almost all, the plays that are popular now, imaginative works as well as historical ones, are known to be nonsense and without rhyme or reason, and despite this the mob hears them with pleasure and thinks of them and approves of them as good, when they are very far from being so, and the authors who compose them and the actors who perform them say they must be like this because that is just how the mob wants them, and no other wa..
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with little sleep and much reading his brains got so dry that he lost his wits.
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At this the duchess, laughing all the while, said: "Sancho Panza is right in all he has said, and will be right in all he shall say..."
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Fortune always leaves a door open in adversity in order to bring relief to it,
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Para mi sola nacio don Quijote y yo para el; el supo obrar y yo escribir.
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Rocinante felt the desire to pleasure himself with the ladies, and as soon as he picked up their scent he abandoned his natural ways and customs, did not ask permission of his owner, broke into a brisk little trot, and went off to communicate his need to them.
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although this is poetic fiction, it contains hidden moral truths worthy of being heeded and understood and imitated,...
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What I can tell your grace is that it deals with truths, and they are truths so appealing and elegant that no lies can equal them.
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love, as I have heard say, sometimes flies and sometimes walks; with this one it runs, with that it moves slowly; some it cools, others it burns; some it wounds, others it slays; it begins in the course of its desires, and at the same moment completes and end it; in the morning it will lay siege to a fortress and by night will have taken it, for there is no power than can resist it.
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I betook myself to these solitudes, resolved to end here the life I hated as if it were my mortal enemy. But fate would not rid me of it, contenting itself with robbing me of my reason,
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Only make yourself honey and the flies will suck you.
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since historians must and ought to be exact, truthful, and absolutely free of passions, for neither interest, fear, rancor, nor affection should make them deviate from the path of the truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, repository of great deeds, witness to the past, example and adviser to the present, and forewarning to the future.
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to retire is not to flee, and there is no wisdom in waiting when danger outweighs hope, and it is the part of wise men to preserve themselves to-day for to-morrow, and not risk all in one day.
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in the worst of circumstances, the hypocrite who pretends to be good does less harm than the public sinner.
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