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Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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Jul 14, 2026 01:35AM

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“I don't want to be a saint, and would rather be a buffoon...”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

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“Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.”
― Voltaire, Candide

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“Only humour - the splendid invention of those highly talented but unfortunte individuals who are frustrated in the pursuit of the highest ideals, figures bordering on the tragic - only humour (possibly the most original and brilliant of humankind's achievements) can accomplish the otherwise impossible feat of uniting all spheres of human life by bathing them in the iridescent light of its prisms. To live in the world as though it were not the world, to respect the law but to remain above it, to have possessions 'as if not possessing', to renounce things as though it were no renunciation: - all things asked of us in such well-loved and frequently expressed words of wisdom can only be put into practice through humour.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

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