Antonio Machado Quotes
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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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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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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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Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.
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What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you.
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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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Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists.
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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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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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In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.
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Traveler, there is no path, the path must be forged as you walk.
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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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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 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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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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Life is the path you beat while you walk it.
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XXIX Traveler, there is no path. The path is made by walking. Traveller, the path is your tracks And nothing more. Traveller, there is no path The path is made by walking. By walking you make a path And turning, you look back At a way you will never tread again Traveller, there is no road Only wakes in the sea.
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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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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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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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All our efforts must tend towards light.
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Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't.
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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.