Best quotes from Don Quixote

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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

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Until death it is all life.

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Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do in this life is to let himself die.

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The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.

707

Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.

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To surrender dreams — this may be madness.

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Hunger is the best sauce in the world.

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What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?

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Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.

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A child may persuade him it is night at noonday, and he is so simple, that I cannot help loving him with all my heart and soul, and cannot leave him in spite of all his follies.

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There were no embraces because where there is great love there is often little display of it.

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The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies.

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There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.

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Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.

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