Famous quotes

Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Pilar Avivar

Pilar Avivar

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Art is not to represent the beautiful, but to beautifully represent things.

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Francisco Ayala

Francisco Ayala

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Nothing should disturb the equanimity of the soul; even our passion, even our outbursts should be measured and weighed.

Francisco Ayala

Francisco Ayala

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The greed is the most selfless of passions, as it demands self-denial, sometimes of heroic magnitude.

Francisco Ayala

Francisco Ayala

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The homeland of the writer is their language.

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Francisco Ayala

Francisco Ayala

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Incompetence is all the more harmful the greater the power of the incompetent.

Francisco Ayala

Francisco Ayala

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Real intellectual exercise does not consist of following trends, but of facing the difficulties of one's own time.

Marcel Aymé

Marcel Aymé

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Some people are so fake that they are no longer aware that they think just the opposite of what they say.

Marcel Aymé

Marcel Aymé

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Humility is the antechamber of all perfections.

Manuel Azaña

Manuel Azaña

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Freedom does not make men happy, it simply makes them men.

Manuel Azaña

Manuel Azaña

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If Spaniards were to talk only and exclusively about what we know, there would be a great silence that would allow us to think.