When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the first European novel to the entire subsequent history of the novel. The novel teaches us to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude.
Milan KunderaTags: wisdom mystery tolerance novel don-quixote
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this. -Don Quixote.
Joe DarionTags: don-quixote
I don't see what my arse has to do with enchantings!
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraTags: humour don-quixote sancho
I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraTags: don-quixote naked mad-acts
There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraTags: world classics comedy don-quixote knighthood
While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw—that of outright unreadability.
Martin AmisTags: literary-criticism bad-reviews don-quixote miguel-de-cervantes
I come in a world of iron...to make a world of gold
Dale WassermanTags: life goals selflessness heroism generosity goals-in-life giving don-quixote life-purpose man-of-la-mancha
the best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish.
Aubrey F.G. BellTags: don-quixote translations great-books cervantes man-of-la-mancha aubrey-bell modern-library novel-translation the-art-of-translation
it is better to have red a great work of another culture in translation than never to have read it at all.
Henry Gratton DoyleTags: translation don-quixote translations cervantes the-art-of-translation great-novels-in-translation
Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.
Graham GreeneTags: adventure travel flying don-quixote
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