y pensar que otra alguna hermosura ha de ocupar el lugar que en mi alma tiene es pensar lo imposible. - Miguel de Cervantes

In short, our gentleman became so immersed in his reading that he spent whole nights from sundown to sunup and his days from dawn to dusk in poring over his books, until, finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind. He filled his imagination with everything he had read, with enchantments, knightly encounters, battles, challenges, wounds, with tales of love and its torments, and all sorts of impossible things, and as a result had come to believe that all these fictitious happenings were true; they were more real to him than anything else in the world.

en ningunas cosas se muestra más esta verdad que en las de la guerra, adonde la celeridad y presteza previene los discursos del enemigo, y alcanza la vitoria antes que el contrario se ponga en defensa.

I have never died all my life