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Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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May 07, 2014 Cosmic Arcata rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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In short, he became so absorbed in his books that he spent his nights from sunset to sunrise, and his days from dawn to dark, poring over them; and what with little sleep and much reading his brains got so dry that he lost his wits. His fancy grew full of what he used to read about in his books, enchantments, quarrels, battles, challenges, wounds, wooings, loves, agonies, and all sorts of impossible nonsense; and it so possessed his mind that the whole fabric of invention and fancy he read of wa ...more

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Aug 20, 2015 Cosmic Arcata rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

really enjoyed this book. I saw how people are manipulated by hope. How those that manipulate with hope often sound very convincing of things that they really do not have to give. Often people may believe in the reality of their hope to such an extent as to see it as having been attained. There are a lot of illusions that people buy into when they adopt a rigid way of thinking.

I also liked watching the relationships between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. It reminded me of a parent child relation ...more

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