Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Here Cide Hamete offers an aside and says that, by Mohammed, he would give the better cloak of two that he owns to see them holding and grasping each other as they walked from the door to the bed.

“Even so,” said Don Juan, “it would be nice to read it because there’s no book so bad that it doesn’t have something good in it.

and if it happened to come to the attention of the author that he had held it in his hands, he did not want him to celebrate the idea that Don Quixote had read it,

the truth is, as has already been said, that whether Don Quixote was simply Alonso Quixano the Good, or whether he was Don Quixote of La Mancha, he always had a gentle disposition and was kind in his treatment of others, and for this reason he was dearly loved not only by those in his household, but by everyone who knew him.

For me alone was Don Quixote born, and I for him; he knew how to act, and I to write; the two of us alone are one,

once more taking to the road with the gentleman and the squire, believing the world is what we read and discovering that the world reads us.”