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Quotes by Spanish Authors

"Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes."
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Marcus Valerius Martial
"Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes."
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"If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it."
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Marcus Valerius Martial
"If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it."
"There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad."
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Salvador Dali
"There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad."
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"A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity."
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Baltasar Gracian
"A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity."
"You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made."
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Jose Bergamin
"You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made."
"Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day."
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Marcus Valerius Martial
"Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day."
"Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst."
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Marcus Valerius Martial
"Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst."
"I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous."
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Salvador Dali
"I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous."
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"Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve."
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Hernando Cortes
"Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve."
"For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God."
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Saint Teresa of Avila
"For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God."
"At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since."
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Salvador Dali
"At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since."
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"The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima."
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Pablo Picasso
"The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima."
"A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about."
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Miguel de Unamuno
"A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about."
"Psychiatrists don't solve anything from one day to the next."
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Victoria Abril
"Psychiatrists don't solve anything from one day to the next."
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"I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story."
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Elena Anaya
"I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story."
"But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected."
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Javier Bardem
"But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected."
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"The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice."
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Andres Segovia
"The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice."
"The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration."
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"The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration."
"It's quite easy to start Trials riding. You just need a bike and you're set."
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Sete Gibernau
"It's quite easy to start Trials riding. You just need a bike and you're set."
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"The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight."
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Frederica Montseny
"The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight."
"The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant."
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Salvador Dali
"The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant."
"To stay at my best, I have to stop talking during the preceding day."
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Placido Domingo
"To stay at my best, I have to stop talking during the preceding day."
"Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly."
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Sergio Aragones
"Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly."
"I mean, if you turn on the radio, love is 90 percent of the music."
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Enrique Iglesias
"I mean, if you turn on the radio, love is 90 percent of the music."
"There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair."
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"There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair."
"I am I plus my circumstances."
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"I am I plus my circumstances."
"Consciousness is a disease."
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Miguel de Unamuno
"Consciousness is a disease."
"Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality."
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Victoria de los Angeles
"Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality."
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome."
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"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome."
"How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree."
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Maimonides
"How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree."
"Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design."
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Sergio Aragones
"Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design."
"The creation continues incessantly through the media of man."
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Antonio Gaudi
"The creation continues incessantly through the media of man."
"Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions."
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Jose Maria Aznar
"Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions."
"Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds."
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Saint Teresa of Avila
"Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds."
"The hand has the richest articulation of space."
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Eduardo Chillida
"The hand has the richest articulation of space."
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"It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning."
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Salvador Dali
"It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning."
"The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause."
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Baltasar Gracian
"The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause."
"No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means."
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Maimonides
"No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means."
"I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity."
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Michael Servetus
"I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity."
"Only he shakes the heavens and from its treasures takes our the winds. He joins the waters and the clouds and produces the rain. He does all those things. Only he realizes miracles permanently."
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Michael Servetus
"Only he shakes the heavens and from its treasures takes our the winds. He joins the waters and the clouds and produces the rain. He does all those things. Only he realizes miracles permanently."
"For even in dreams a good deed is not lost."
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Pedro Calderon
"For even in dreams a good deed is not lost."
"Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it."
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Baltasar Gracian
"Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it."
"The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith."
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Ignatius Loyola
"The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith."
"Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you."
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Miguel de Unamuno
"Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you."
"No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges."
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Buenaventura Durruti
"No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges."
"We're aligning ourselves with Kerry. Our allegiance will be for peace, against war, no more deaths for oil, and for a dialogue between the government of Spain and the new Kerry administration."
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Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
"We're aligning ourselves with Kerry. Our allegiance will be for peace, against war, no more deaths for oil, and for a dialogue between the government of Spain and the new Kerry administration."
"Music will save the world."
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Pablo Casals
"Music will save the world."
"Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose."
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Baltasar Gracian
"Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose."
"I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan."
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Javier Bardem
"I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan."
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"Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid."
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Salvador Dali
"Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid."
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