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Quotes by Spanish Authors
"The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?"
"Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it."
"The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will."
"Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt."
"Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning."
"The happiest moment in my life? When my doctor told me I was completely cured of leukemia."
"Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching."
"Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times."
"Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do."
"I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City."
"Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint."
"Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority."
"Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved."
"Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin."
"Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness."
"Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems."
"It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity."
"He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything."
"Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die."
"That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence."
"The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory."
"Inspiration comes when you stick your elbows on the table, your bottom on the chair and you start sweating. Choose a theme, an idea, and squeeze your brain until it hurts. That's called inspiration."
"It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater."
"So the American economy needs the world, and the world needs the American economy."
"It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it."
"Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched."
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