Where one door shuts, another opens. - Miguel de Cervantes

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Where one door shuts, another opens.

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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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— Con la iglesia hemos dado, Sancho. — Ya lo veo — respondió Sancho — ; y plega a Dios que no demos con nuestra sepultura, que no es buena señal andar por los cimenterios a tales horas, y más, habiendo yo dicho a vuestra merced, si mal no me acuerdo, que la casa desta señora ha de estar en una callejuela sin salida. — ¡Maldito seas de Dios, mentecato! — dijo don Quijote — . ¿Adónde has tú hallado que los alcázares y palacios reales estén edificados en callejuelas sin salida? — Señor — respondió Sancho — , en cada tierra su uso: quizá se usa aquí en el Toboso edificar en callejuelas los palacios y edificios grandes; y así, suplico a vuestra merced me deje buscar por estas calles o callejuelas que se me ofrecen: podría ser que en algún rincón topase con ese alcázar, que le vea yo comido de perros, que así nos trae corridos y asendereados. — Habla con respeto, Sancho, de las cosas de mi señora — dijo don Quijote — , y tengamos la fiesta en paz, y no arrojemos la soga tras el caldero.

Remember that there are two kinds of beauty: one of the soul and the other of the body. That of the soul displays its radiance in intelligence, in chastity, in good conduct, in generosity, and in good breeding, and all these qualities may exist in an ugly man. And when we focus our attention upon that beauty, not upon the physical, love generally arises with great violence and intensity. I am well aware that I am not handsome, but I also know that I am not deformed, and it is enough for a man of worth not to be a monster for him to be dearly loved, provided he has those spiritual endowments I have spoken of.

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