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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

  Teaching, Learning, Path

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• Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.

  Antonio Machado

  Fear, Ocean, Anchors

  Antonio Machado (2011). “Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado”, p.113, Wesleyan University Press

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• The only living language is the language in which we think and have our being.

  Antonio Machado

  Thinking, Language

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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. . .

  Antonio Machado

  Inspirational, Path, Made

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• Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists.

  Antonio Machado

  Culture, Illusion, Consolation

  Antonio Machado (1963). “Juan de Mairena”, Univ of California Press

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• And to walk through life in dreams out of love for the hand that guides us.

  Antonio Machado

  Marriage, Dream, Hands

  "Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado".

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• No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced.

  Antonio Machado

  Light, Understanding, Vices

  Antonio Machado (1963). “Juan de Mairena”, Univ of California Press

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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.

  Antonio Machado

  Hands, Circles, Waiting

  Antonio Machado (1963). “Juan de Mairena”, Univ of California Press

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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. In other words, the fact that I don’t put my philosophy into practice saves me from its evil spell, or, rather, my faith in the human race is stronger then my intellectual analysis of it; there lies the fountain of youth in which my heart is continually bathing.

  Antonio Machado

  Philosophy, Lying, Believe

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• In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.

  Antonio Machado

  Writing, Order, Firsts

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• The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems.

  Antonio Machado

  Believe, Reality, Philosopher

  Antonio Machado (1963). “Juan de Mairena”, Univ of California Press

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• Life is the path you beat while you walk it.

  Antonio Machado

  Path, Life Is, Beats

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• Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant.

  Antonio Machado

  Running, Community, Atheism

  Antonio Machado (1963). “Juan de Mairena”, Univ of California Press

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• Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.

  Antonio Machado

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Men

  Antonio Machado (1963). “Juan de Mairena”, Univ of California Press

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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.

  Antonio Machado

  Views, Your Side, Looks

  Antonio Machado (2011). “Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado”, p.147, Wesleyan University Press

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• It is good knowing that glasses are to drink from;
  the bad thing is not to know what thirst is for.

  Antonio Machado

  Glasses, Knowing, Drink

  Antonio Machado (2011). “Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado”, p.111, Wesleyan University Press

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• Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt - marvellous error! - That it was God I had here inside my heart.

  Antonio Machado

  Heart, Sleep, Night

  Antonio Machado (2011). “Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado”, p.43, Wesleyan University Press

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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.

  Antonio Machado

  Change, Personality, Doe

  Antonio Machado (1963). “Juan de Mairena”, Univ of California Press

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• There is no way; we make the road by walking it.

  Antonio Machado

  Wisdom, Way, Walking

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• There are a lot of doubts over the size and effect of new competitors in the cellular sector.

  Antonio Machado

  Doubt, Size, Cellular

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• At the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to break the bank of our answers.

  Antonio Machado

  Answers, Wheels, Break

  Antonio Machado (1963). “Juan de Mairena”, Univ of California Press

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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.

  Antonio Machado

  Sea, Feet, Foam

  Antonio Machado, Alan S. Trueblood (1982). “Antonio Machado”, p.143, Harvard University Press

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• The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it.

  Antonio Machado

  Writing, Soul, Sin

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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

  Truth, Passion, Men

  Antonio Machado (1963). “Juan de Mairena”, Univ of California Press

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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 that never will be trod again. Wanderer, there is no road-- Only wakes upon the sea. Caminante, son tus huellas el camino, y nada más; caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. Al andar se hace camino, y al volver la vista atrás se ve la senda que nunca se ha de volver a pisar. Caminante, no hay camino, sino estelas en la mar.

  Antonio Machado

  Son, Sea, Hay

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