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Quotes by Spanish Authors
"True solidarity is only possible among the solitary."
"The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit."
"Be content to act, and leave the talking to others."
"At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all."
"It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice."
"I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty."
"The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes."
"Law is born from despair of human nature."
"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."
"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad."
"We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons."
"There are apothecaries' shops, where prepared medicines, liquids, ointments, and plasters are sold; barbers' shops, where they wash and shave the head; and restaurateurs, that furnish food and drink at a certain price."
"The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret."
"Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess."
"I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance."
"The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever."
"Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification."
"We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel."
"I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it."
"Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?"
"It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you."
"I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea."
"Boys my age are boring. They have nothing to say and half of them seem like complete idiots.I was going to say that they didn't improve with age but didn't want to spoil her illusions."
"I used to be a good party boy. I'm old. I'm an old man. You pay the consequences. I'm just fine with a couple of drinks, no more than that."
"At the end of the '60s, I was trying to enter the world of comics."
"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends."
"So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul."
"I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350 years old! America is still a project, and you guys are working on it and bringing new things to it every day. That is beautiful to watch."
"I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals."
"There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation."
"Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision."
"There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction."
"Senor Sempere believed that God lives, to a smaller or greater extent, in books, and that is why he devoted his life to sharing them, to protecting them, and to making sure their pages, like our memories and our desires, are never lost."
"We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that."
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