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Quotes by Spanish Authors
"Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them."
"One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity."
"I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time. It was the early summer of 1945, and we walked through the streets of a Barcelona trapped beneath ashen skies as dawn poured over Rambla de Santa Monica in a wreath of liquid copper."
"Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives."
"A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience."
"The French are endowed with bigger limbs; those of the Spaniards are stronger; they have a very slim waist. The French fight with more ferocity than advise. The Spaniards the opposite."
"As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die."
"Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance."
"What we have achieved is a good example of how the right policies deliver."
"With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy."
"There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists."
"May the Lord destroy all the tyrants of the church. Amen."
"I've always said that music is like literature."
"With this silent film, I wanted to hide what was going on in the clinic. I wanted to cover it up in the best cinematic way and in an entertaining manner."
"It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs."
"There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously."
"Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen."
"My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them."
"We found on our journey, as well as in the place where we stopped, that they treated us with as much confidence and good-will as if they had known us all their lives."
"When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family."
"I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!"
"I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside."
"'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged."
"True knowledge lies in knowing how to live."
"If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing."
"The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces like the power of lies, the greater the better. It's only natural, and you will have to find the right balance. Having said that, let me add that this particular old woman hasn't been collecting only years; she has also collected stories, and none sadder or more terrible than the one she's about to tell you. You have been at the heart of this story without knowing it until today ..."
"In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government."
"Keep your dreams, you will never know when you need them."
"I want to increase our spending on research and development by 25%. That's something the U.S. does very well. That dynamism alongside a welfare state in the European community - that's the synthesis I want to achieve."
"Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute."
"Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else."
"Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting."
"My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness."
"The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental."
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