The Strange Friend of Tito Gil Quotes

“At the side of every living city, town, or hamlet, there is always a dead city or town, as the shadow is always beside the body. Geography, therefore, is always double, although you speak only of that which appears most agreeable. To make a map of all the cemeteries upon earth would suffice to explain the political geography of thy world.”
― Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, The Strange Friend of Tito Gil

“I cannot see why all men are not friends below.
The identity of your weaknesses and misfortunes, the need that you have one for another, the shortness of your lives, the spectacle of the infinite greatness of the spheres, and the comparison of these with your own littleness, all ought to unite you fraternally, as voyagers threatened with shipwreck.”
― Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, The Strange Friend of Tito Gil