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“Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave, and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.”
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“Historical reality has two sides. One is made up of facts, events, material realities, and one of the ideas, images and dreams.”
― The Medieval Imagination
― The Medieval Imagination
“As he caught his footing, his head fell back, and the Milky Way flowed down inside him with a roar.”
― Snow Country
― Snow Country
“We are confronted by an interesting phenomenon: a literary hero losing gradually contact with the book that bore him; leaving his fatherland, leaving his creator’s desk and roaming space after roaming Spain. In result, Don Quixote is greater today than he was in Cervantes’s womb. He has ridden for three hundred and fifty years through the jungles and tundras of human thought—and he has gained in vitality and stature. We do not laugh at him any longer. His blazon is pity, his banner is beauty. He stands for everything that is gentle, forlorn, pure, unselfish, and gallant. The parody has become a paragon.”
― Lectures on Don Quixote
― Lectures on Don Quixote
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