Antonio Machado Quotes
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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 open far-off things, and listens…
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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. By walking one makes the…
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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 hand.
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At the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to break the bank of our answers.
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The truly erotic sensibility, in evoking the image of woman, never omits to clothe it. The robing and disrobing: that is the true traffic of…
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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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What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?
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Life is the path you beat while you walk it It's the walking that beats the path It is not the path that makes the…
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No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced.
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Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits
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All uncertainty is fruitfull ... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand
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Walk through life in dreams out of love of the hand that leads us.
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Wayfarer, the only way is your footsteps, there is no other. Wayfarer, there is no way, you make the way as you go. As you…
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There is no way; we make the road by walking it.
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