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Quotes by Spanish Authors
"A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are."
"I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day."
"There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad."
"We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself."
"People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living isn't complicated enough."
"Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards."
"It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love."
"You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real."
"Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one."
"I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar."
"If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently."
"We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad."
"True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant."
"The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt."
"But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights."
"Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be."
"The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish."
"In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance."
"I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring."
"The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles."
"Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values."
"Europe cannot confine itself to the cultivation of its own garden."
"Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise."
"Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything."
"It's a pity that I can never really enjoy my movies because, after the mixing, your capacity as a spectator just disappears. I have to think about what I felt just before the mixing."
"Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified."
"There are worse prisons than words."
"Every self-respecting act of persuasion must find appeal to curiosity, then to vanity, and lastly to kindness or remorse. Isabella looked down and slowly nodded."
"Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development."
"The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed."
"To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment."
"All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other purpose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species. It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for a human being. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake. As I said, pure biology."
"Right then, in a nutshell: this one hasn't a single bone of obedient-little-wife material in her heavenly body.''Hasn't she? Then what kind of bone does your expertise detect?'Fermin came closer, adopting a confidential tone. 'The passionate kind,' he said, raising his eyebrows with an air of mystery. 'And you can be sure I mean that as a compliment."
"The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika."
"He believed that life gives us all a few moments of happiness. For some they last hours or days, for a few lucky ones they last for years. The memories from those moments stays with us forever and turns into a country of memory to which we try to go back for the rest of our lives without ever being able to."
"You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject."
"The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman."
"The corporations and the media don't need power; they already have it."
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