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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.

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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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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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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All our efforts must tend towards light.
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Life is the path you beat while you walk it.
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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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And to walk through life in dreams out of love for the hand that guides us.
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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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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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The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.
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Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits
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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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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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In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.
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Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant.
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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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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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Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.
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