Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer quotes
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“As long as science fails to discover the sources of life, as long as, on sea or in the sky, there is an abyss that is resistant to mathematical reckoning, as long as mankind in its steady progress is ignorant of where it's heading, as long as a mystery exists for man, there will be poetry!”
-- Gustavo Adolfo BécquerSource : Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Stanley Appelbaum (2006). “Rhymes and Legends (Selection)/Rimas Y Leyendas (selección): A Dual-Language Book”, p.9, Courier Corporation
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“¡Lástima que el Amor un diccionario no tenga donde hallar cuándo el orgullo es simplemente orgullo y cuándo es dignidad! What a shame that love has no dictionary in which to ascertain when pride is simply pride and when it's 'dignity'!”
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“The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze.”
-- Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer -
“¡Lástima que el Amor un diccionario no tenga donde hallar cuándo el orgullo es simplemente orgullo y cuándo es dignidad! What a shame that love has no dictionary in which to ascertain when pride is simply pride and when it's 'dignity'!”
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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
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“Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.”
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“The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.”
Source : "Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas". Book by Abby Sunderland and Lynn Vincent, 2011.
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“Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.”
Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.125, Thomas Nelson Inc
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“The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.”
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