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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
Antonio Machado
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Antonio Machado
Age: 63 †
Born: 1875
Born: July 26
Died: 1939
Died: February 22
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Antonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz
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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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Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.
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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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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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In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.
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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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The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.
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Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant.
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Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits
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And to walk through life in dreams out of love for the hand that guides us.
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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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What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?
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All our efforts must tend towards light.
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Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.
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There is no way we make the road by walking it.
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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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Man's passion for truth is such that he will welcome the bitterest of all postulates so long as it strikes him as true.
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There is no road, the road is made by walking.
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Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path. . .
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