Antonio Machado Quotes
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No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced.
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Man's passion for truth is such that he will welcome the bitterest of all postulates so long as it strikes him as true.
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Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists.
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There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world.
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Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant.
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Death is something we don't have to fear, since as long as we exist death doesn't and when it does we don't.
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The truly erotic sensibility, in evoking the image of woman, never omits to clothe it. The robing and disrobing: that is the true traffic of love.
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My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I’m not a sad man, and I don’t believe I sadden anyone else. In other words, the fact that I don’t put my philosophy into practice saves me from its evil spell, or, rather, my faith in the human race is stronger then my intellectual analysis of it; there lies the fountain of youth in which my heart is continually bathing.
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Telecoms are rising because they are the most liquid; the stocks foreigners will buy when they come into the market next year and investors here are anticipating that.
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Hell is the bloodcurdling mansion of time, in whose profoundest circle Satan himself waits, winding a gargantuan watch in his hand.
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I. Don't trace out your profile-- forget your side view-- all that is outer stuff. II. Look for your other half who walks always next to you and tends to be who you aren't.
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In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.
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What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you.
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I love Jesus, who said to us: Heaven and earth will pass away. When heaven and earth have passed away, my word will remain. What was your word, Jesus? Love? Forgiveness? Affection? All your words were one word: Wakeup.
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All our efforts must tend towards light.
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Traveler, there is no path, the path must be forged as you walk.
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Life is the path you beat while you walk it It's the walking that beats the path It is not the path that makes the walk.
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The deepest words of the wise man teach us the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows or the sound of the water when it is flowing.
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There's nothing much special going on today, just some profit-taking.
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'Estos días azules y este sol de infancia'
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Avoid pulpits, platforms, stages and pedestals. Keep to the hard ground. It is the only way you can judge your approximate status as a man.
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Life is the path you beat while you walk it.
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Don't try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled.
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My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence.