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“In short, not only are things not what they seem, they are not even what they are called!”

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Francisco de Quevedo was a prominent Spanish writer of the Renaissance period, known for his satirical literature and satirical novels. His works are characterized by their sharp讽刺 and critical commentary on social phenomena of the time. more

“The terrible thing is that the crowd that fills the street believes that the world will always be the same and that it is their duty to keep that huge machine running, day and night, forever. This is what comes of a Protestant morality, that I, as a (thank God) typical Spaniard, found unnerving.”

World Believe Running Night Found Forever Streets Duty Huge Terrible Morality Machines Crowds Thank God Typical Terrible Things Herds Day And Night Protestants Spaniards

Author:Federico Garcia Lorca

“At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.”

Men Firsts Looks Kind May Mean Social Crime Empty Machines Slavery Painful Rhythm Confused Mechanism Typical Glances Anguish Gang Social Life Gaiety

Author:Federico Garcia Lorca

“I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea. Never as then, amid suicides, hysteria, and groups of fainting people, have I felt the sensation of real death, death without hope, death that is nothing but rottenness, for the spectacle was terrifying but devoid of greatness... I felt something like a divine urge to bombard that whole canyon of shadow, where ambulances collected suicides whose hands were full of rings.”

“The wounds were burning like suns at five in the afternoon, and the crowd broke the windows At five in the afternoon. Ah, that fatal five in the afternoon! It was five by all the clocks! It was five in the shade of the afternoon!”

Sun Five Window Crowds Wounds Burning Broke Clock Shade Afternoon

Author:Federico Garcia Lorca

“The poem, the song, the picture, is only water drawn from the well of the people, and it should be given back to them in a cup of beauty so that they may drink - and in drinking understand themselves.”

People Should Wells May Song Given Water Drink Drinking Cups

Author:Federico Garcia Lorca

“I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.”

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Author:Juana Inés de la Cruz

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