Antonio Machado Quotes
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Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path. . .
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The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems.
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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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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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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.
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All uncertainty is fruitfull ... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand.
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There are a lot of doubts over the size and effect of new competitors in the cellular sector.
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In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.
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'Estos días azules y este sol de infancia'
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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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It is good knowing that glasses are to drink from; the bad thing is not to know what thirst is for.
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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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Traveler, there is no path, the path must be forged as you walk.
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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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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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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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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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Life is the path you beat while you walk it.
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Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant.
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Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.
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There's nothing much special going on today, just some profit-taking.
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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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Hell is the bloodcurdling mansion of time, in whose profoundest circle Satan himself waits, winding a gargantuan watch in his hand.