Y si a esto se me respondiese que los que componen tales libros los escriben como cosas de mentira y que, así, no están obligados a mirar en sutileza… - Miguel de Cervantes

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Y si a esto se me respondiese que los que componen tales libros los escriben como cosas de mentira y que, así, no están obligados a mirar en sutilezas ni verdades, yo les respondería que la mentira es tanto mejor cuanto más parece verdadera, y tanto más agrada cuanto más tiene de verosímil y posible. Se han de acoplar las fábulas mentirosas al entendimiento de los que las lean, escribiéndose de suerte que haciendo creíbles los imposibles, allanando las grandezas, suspendiendo los ánimos, admiren, suspendan, alborocen y entretengan, de modo que andan a un mismo paso la admiración y la alegría juntas. y todas estas cosas no las podrá hacer el que huya de la verosimilitud y de la imitación, en que consiste la perfección de lo que se escribe. No he visto ningún libro de caballerías que haga una fábula de cuerpo entero con todos sus miembros, de manera que lo del medio se corresponda con el principio, y el fin con el principio y lo del medio, sino que los componen con tantos miembros, que más parece que llevan intención de formar una quimera o un monstruo que de hacer una figura proporcionada

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About Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (29 September 1547 – 23 April 1616) was a Spanish novelist, poet and playwright. He is most famous for his novel Don Quixote, or Don Quijote de la Mancha, which is considered by many to be the first modern novel, one of the greatest works in Western literature, and the greatest of the Spanish language.

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Freedom, Sancho, is one of the most precious gifts that heaven has bestowed upon men; no treasures that the earth holds buried or the sea conceals can compare with it; for freedom, as for honour, life may and should be ventured; and on the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can fall to the lot of man.

O Don Quixote, wise as thou art brave,
La Mancha's splendor and of Spain the star!
To thee I say that if the peerless maid,
Dulcinea del Toboso, is to be restored
to the state that was once hers, it needs must be
that thy squire Sancho take on his bared behind,
those sturdy buttocks, must consent to take
three thousand lashes and three hundred more,
and well laid on, that they may sting and smart;
for those are the authors of her woe
have thus resolved, and that is why I've come,
This, gentles, is the word I bring to you.

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But to give him anything to drink was impossible, or would have been so had not the landlord bored a reed, and putting one end in his mouth poured the wine into him through the other; all which he bore with patience rather than sever the ribbons of his helmet.

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