Top 53 Antonio Machado Quotes
#1. The only living language is the language in which we think and have our being.
Antonio Machado
#2. This Narcissus of ours
Can't see his face in the mirror
Because he has become the mirror.
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#3. Man's passion for truth is such that he will welcome the bitterest of all postulates so long as it strikes him as true.
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#4. Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.
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#5. The deepest words
of the wise man teach us
the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows
or the sound of the water when it is flowing.
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#6. I thought my fire was out,
and stirred the ashes ... .
I burnt my fingers.
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#8. But don't hunt for dissonance:
There is no such thing;
People dance to all tunes.
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#9. When the I AM THAT I AM made nothing
And rested, which rest it certainly deserved,
Night now accompanied day, and man
Had his friend in the absence of the woman.
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#10. Don't try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled.
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#11. Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists.
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#12. It is good knowing that glasses are to drink from;
the bad thing is not to know what thirst is for.
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#14. My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence.
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#15. Avoid pulpits, platforms, stages and pedestals. Keep to the hard ground. It is the only way you can judge your approximate status as a man.
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#16. Walk through life in dreams out of love of the hand that leads us.
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#17. There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world.
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#18. Hell is the bloodcurdling mansion of time, in whose profoundest circle Satan himself waits, winding a gargantuan watch in his hand.
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#19. Traveler, there is no path, the path must be
forged as you walk.
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#20. Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.
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#21. Death is something we don't have to fear, since as long as we exist death doesn't and when it does we don't.
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#22. The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it.
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#23. There are a lot of doubts over the size and effect of new competitors in the cellular sector.
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#24. The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.
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#25. Caminante, no hay camino. Se hace camino al andar.
(Walker, there is no road. The road is made as you walk.)
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#26. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind sees the path
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#27. Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt - marvellous error! - That it was God I had here inside my heart.
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#28. The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems.
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#29. Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up.
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#30. The truly erotic sensibility, in evoking the image of woman, never omits to clothe it. The robing and disrobing: that is the true traffic of love.
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#31. I thought my fireplace dead
and stirred the ashes.
I burned my fingers.
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#32. Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits
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#33. Your footsteps are the road, wanderer, and nothing else
there is no road, it is born of walking
and looking back, you gaze upon the path
to which you never shall return
there is no road, wanderer
only wakes upon the sea
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#34. No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced.
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#35. Wayfarer, the only way is your footsteps, there is no other. Wayfarer, there is no way, you make the way as you go. As you go, you make the way and stopping to look behind, you see the path that your feet will never travel again. Wayfarer, there is no way- Only foam trails to the sea.
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#36. I love Jesus, who said to us: Heaven and earth will pass away. When heaven and earth have passed away, my word will remain. What was your word, Jesus? Love? Forgiveness? Affection? All your words were one word: Wakeup.
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#37. Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.
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#38. I dreamt
marvellous error!
that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.
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#39. Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't.
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#40. In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.
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#41. Dream-travelers, there is no path, paths are made by dreaming.
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#44. Look for your other half
Who walks along next to you,
And tends to be what you aren't.
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#45. What the poet is searching for
is not the fundamental I
but the deep you.
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#46. Mankind owns four things
That are no good at sea:
Rudder, anchor, oars,
And the fear of going down.
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#47. Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.
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#48. Pathmaker, there is no path;
You make the path by walking,
By walking you make the Path
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#49. I.
Don't trace out your profile
forget your side view
all that is outer stuff.
II.
Look for your other half
who walks always next to you
and tends to be who you aren't.
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#50. All uncertainty is fruitfull ... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand
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#51. At the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to break the bank of our answers.
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#52. Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant.
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#53. I've caught a glimpse of him in dreams:
expert hunter of himself,
every minute in ambush.
Antonio Machado
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