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Quotes by Spanish Authors
"Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed."
"I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else."
"We have believed for many years, much earlier than anyone else was talking about this issue, that it was in the interest of China to evolve to a more flexible exchange rate system."
"It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins."
"Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself and one's limitations. To achieve anything you must first have ambition and then talent, knowledge, and finally the opportunity."
"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil."
"If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other."
"I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat."
"To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty."
"Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making."
"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."
"Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves. But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers."
"An abundant supply of excellent water, forming a volume equal in bulk to the human body, is conveyed by one of these pipes, and distributed about the city, where it is used by the inhabitants for drink and other purposes."
"Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation."
"Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali."
"Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing."
"We have seen a strong increase in oil prices and up to this year we see that the world has been able to absorb that."
"The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair."
"To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man."
"With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice."
"Art is a lie that makes us realize truth."
"And then you might decide that the country can just spend maybe years or decades to regain that credit, or maybe give that county the support, the financial support that the market is not willing not do."
"To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience."
"Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families."
"It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it."
"There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers."
"Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons."
"Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes."
"I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever."
"An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself."
"We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving."
"Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically."
"Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second."
"There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all."
"I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities."
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