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he said such strange things to him as he thanked him for the boon of having dubbed him a knight that it is not possible to adequately recount them.
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“I absolve you from perfumes,”
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tied the boy to the oak tree again and gave him so many lashes that he left him half-dead.
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whom I am one, and in order not to burden our consciences with the
prejudicial to the empresses and queens of Alcarria and Extremadura, I implore your grace to have the goodness to show us a portrait of this lady, even if it is no larger than a grain of wheat;
“is The Ten Books of Fortune in Love, composed by Antonio de Lofraso, a Sardinian poet.”19
think, and therefore it is true,
he meant to live on sweet memories.
no history is bad if it is true.
omecils,”
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you will see me sounder than an apple.”
“Forgive me, your grace,” said Sancho. “Since I don’t know how to read or write, as I told you before, I don’t know and am not aware of the rules of the chivalric profession; from now on I’ll stock the saddlebags with all kinds of dried fruit for your grace, since you are a knight, and for me, since I’m not, I’ll fill them with other things that have wings and are more substantial.” “I am not saying, Sancho,” replied Don Quixote, “that it is necessary for knights errant not to eat anything other than those fruits you mention, but simply that their most ordinary sustenance consisted of them and
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one may say of knight errantry what is said of love: it makes all things equal.”
The goatherds did not understand their nonsensical talk about squires and knights errant, and
which could very easily have been omitted—
is hurting more than is necessary.”
“It is called an eclipse, my friend, not a clips,
“My mouth sores last a good long time,” Pedro responded, “and if, Señor, you keep correcting every word I say, we won’t finish in a year.”
there is such a great difference between my mouth sores and Methuselah;
who by this time was cursing the goatherd’s endless talk,
since there is nothing that does not vex the absent lover, and no fear that does not overwhelm him,
since ugliness is worthy of being avoided,
Honor and virtue are adornments of the soul, without which the body is not truly beautiful, even if it seems to be so.
And if chastity is one of the virtues that most adorn and beautify both body and soul, why should a woman, loved for being beautiful, lose that virtue in order to satisfy the desire of a man who, for the sake of his pleasure, attempts with all his might and main to have her lose it?
discouragement should not be taken for disdain.
According to a medieval legend, the wounds of a murder victim would bleed in the presence of the killer.
am worth a hundred,”
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who saw themselves attacked by only two men when there were so many of them,
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“Yours, at least, Sancho,” replied Don Quixote, “must be accustomed to such cloudbursts; but mine, brought up on cambric and fine Dutch linen, of course will feel more deeply the pain of this misfortune.
hurling a hundred twenty curses and blasphemies at the one who had brought him there,
his example could be followed by solemn historians who recount actions so briefly and succinctly that we can barely taste them, and leave behind in the inkwell, through carelessness, malice, or ignorance, the most substantive part of the work.
Fortune, which never wearies of pursuing the virtuous, hath
wouldn’t want them to spoil because I kept them too long.”
it had been at the expense of his usual guarantor, which was his back. The
“It is your fear, Sancho,” said Don Quixote, “that keeps you from seeing or hearing properly, because one of the effects of fear is to cloud the senses and make things appear other than they are;
it is not possible for the bad or the good to endure forever; from this it follows that since the bad has lasted so long a time, the good is close at hand.
was a great misadventure for me to run across a man who is seeking adventures.”
that hunger and your missing teeth give you such a sorry-looking face that, as I’ve said, you can easily do without the sorrowful picture.”
let the dead go to the grave and the living to the loaf of bread.”
fear has many eyes and can see things under the ground, let alone high in the sky;
when she found herself rejected by Lope, began to love him dearly, though she had never loved him before.” “That is the nature of women,” said Don Quixote. “They reject the man who loves them and love the man who despises them.
you are clever and know that first impulses are not ours to control,
“that troubles take wing for the man who can sing.”
“withdrawing is not running away, and waiting is not sensible when danger outweighs hope, and wise men know to save something for tomorrow and not risk everything in a single day.
really like things that have to do with love.”
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What your beauty erected was demolished by your actions; from the former I understood that you were an angel, and from the latter I know that you are a woman.
even though the shepherds offer food to him willingly, he doesn’t accept it but punches them and steals it from them,
it is still a consolation in affliction to find someone who mourns with you.
although it silenced our tongues, it could not silence our pens, which, with greater freedom than tongues, tend to reveal to the person we love what is hidden in our soul,
