Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.

Antonio Machado
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  2. You always admire what you really don't understand. - Eleanor Roosevelt

  3. What you can't get is just what suits you. - French Proverb

  4. The dream is real my friends. The failure to realize it is the only reality. - Toni Cade Bambara

  5. The true exercise of freedom is-can-nily and wisely and with grace-to move inside what space confines-and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted. - A. S. Byatt

More Quotes By Antonio Machado
  1. Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.

  2. Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path that never will be trod again. Wanderer, there is no road--...

  3. Hope says: one dayyou will see her, if you will only wait. Despair says:all you have left of her is your bitterness. Beat, heart… The earthhas not swallowed everything.

  4. I thought my fireplace dead and stirred the ashes. I burned my fingers.

  5. 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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