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Quotes by Spanish Authors
"I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him."
"The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history."
"Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous."
"Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin."
"Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish."
"Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone."
"Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way."
"There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one."
"He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all."
"Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one."
"Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders."
"Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking."
"Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions."
"Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk about. I don't know why I am more interested in women, because I don't go to any psychiatrists, and I don't want to know why."
"If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon Creation, I should have recommended something simpler."
"My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could only do that if I'm strong enough to keep on doing what I think best in an artistic way."
"Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race."
"Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent."
"The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward."
"We found vines of a large size, and in some cases quite loaded with grapes; we also found an abundance of roses, which appeared to be like those of Castile."
"Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory."
"Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?"
"All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers."
"All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted."
"I live in a very small town and now that I've closed down my studio, I'm working at home."
"The 'movement' is paramount, the concept of 'family' is the symbol we wish to project."
"Everyone wanted to see [him] fall so they could devour his remains. As is usually the case, the army of sycophants had turned into a horde of hungry hyenas."
"Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks."
"The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing."
"From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment."
"One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know."
"The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture."
"It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards."
"To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else."
"Awards were made in Hollywood, in whatever the time it was created. They're to promote each other's movies. You give me an award, I give you an award and people will believe that we are great movies and they'll go to see them. It's still the same."
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