Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.

Miguel de Cervantes

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• She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Destroy
  • Destruction
  • Satisfy