“In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.”
“Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.”
“Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.”
“Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.”
“Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.”
“He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.”
“No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.”
“Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.”
born: September 29, 1547, Alcalá de Henares, Spain
died: April 22, 1616, Madrid, Spain
Spanish novelist, playwright, and poet, the creator of Don Quixote (1605, 1615) and an important and celebrated figure in Spanish literature. His novel Don Quixote has been translated, in full or partially, into more than 60 languages. Editions proceed frequently to be printed, and critical dialogue of the work has proceeded unabated since the 18th century. On the same time, due to their popular representation in art, drama, and film, the figures of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza are most definitely acquainted visually to more people than every other imaginary characters in world literature. Cervantes used to be an ideal experimenter. He tried his hand in the entire major literary genres save the epic. He used to be a amazing short-story author, and some of these in his collection of Novelas exemplares (1613; Exemplary Stories) attain a degree close to that of Don Quixote, on a miniature scale.
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