Antonio Machado Quotes
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Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.
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What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you.
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Has my heart gone to sleep? Have the beehives of my dreams stopped working, the waterwheel of the mind run dry, scoops turning empty, only shadow inside? No, my heart is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. Not asleep, not dreaming— its eyes are opened wide watching distant signals, listening on the rim of vast silence
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Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists.
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The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.
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The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it.
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My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I'm not a sad man, and I don't believe I sadden anyone else.
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Avoid pulpits, platforms, stages and pedestals. Keep to the hard ground. It is the only way you can judge your approximate status as a man.
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Hell is the bloodcurdling mansion of time, in whose profoundest circle Satan himself waits, winding a gargantuan watch in his hand.
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Pathmaker, there is no path; You make the path by walking, By walking you make the Path
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All uncertainty is fruitfull ... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand
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By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind sees the path
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I. Don't trace out your profile-- forget your side view-- all that is outer stuff. II. Look for your other half who walks always next to you and tends to be who you aren't.
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All our efforts must tend towards light.
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The only living language is the language in which we think and have our being.
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XXIX Traveler, there is no path. The path is made by walking. Traveller, the path is your tracks And nothing more. Traveller, there is no path The path is made by walking. By walking you make a path And turning, you look back At a way you will never tread again Traveller, there is no road Only wakes in the sea.
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I thought my fire was out, and stirred the ashes…. I burnt my fingers.
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Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt - marvellous error! - That it was God I had here inside my heart.
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Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up.
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The afternoon is bright, with spring in the air, a mild March afternoon, with the breath of April stirring, I am alone in the quiet patio looking for some old untried illusion - some shadow on the whiteness of the wall some memory asleep on the stone rim of the fountain, perhaps in the air the light swish of some trailing gown.
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There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world.
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Traveler, there is no path, the path must be forged as you walk.
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Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't.
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Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. (Walk, there is no path, the path is made by walking.)
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Life is the path you beat while you walk it It's the walking that beats the path It is not the path that makes the walk
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Death is something we don't have to fear, since as long as we exist death doesn't and when it does we don't.
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What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?
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The truly erotic sensibility, in evoking the image of woman, never omits to clothe it. The robing and disrobing: that is the true traffic of love.
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The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems.
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Wayfarer, the only way is your footsteps, there is no other. Wayfarer, there is no way, you make the way as you go. As you go, you make the way and stopping to look behind, you see the path that your feet will never travel again. Wayfarer, there is no way- Only foam trails to the sea.
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