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“If you look into your own mind, which are you, Don Quixote or Sancho Panza? Almost certainly you are both. There’s one part of you that wishes to be a hero or a saint, but another part of you is a little fat man who sees very clearly the advantages of staying alive with a whole skin. He is your unofficial self, The voice of the belly protesting against the soul.”

“The Sancho Panza view of life” : “base wisdom” // Panza-Quixote a part of a recurring duality in modern literature, like Bloom-Dedalus: noble folly - base wisdom