"The wind, one brilliant day, called to my……" — Antonio Machado
"The wind, one brilliant day, called to my soul with an odor of jasmine. "In return for the odor of my jasmine, I'd like all the odor of your roses." "I have no roses; all the flowers in my garden are dead." "Well then, I'll take the withered petals and the yellow leaves and the waters of the fountain." the wind left. And I wept. And I said to myself: "What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?"
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Antonio Machado
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47 Quotes by Antonio Machado
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Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.
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Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.
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My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide…
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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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By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind sees the path
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Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking.…
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In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.
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Hell is the bloodcurdling mansion of time, in whose profoundest circle Satan himself waits, winding a gargantuan watch in his…
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At the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to break the bank…
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The truly erotic sensibility, in evoking the image of woman, never omits to clothe it. The robing and disrobing: that…
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Life is the path you beat while you walk it.
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Only a fool thinks price and value are the same.
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