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“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Don Quixote
― Don Quixote
Reading Progress
May 17, 2011
– Shelved
August 26, 2013
– Shelved as:
classics
August 26, 2013
– Shelved as:
spain
August 26, 2013
– Shelved as:
literature
August 26, 2013
– Shelved as:
kindle
April 3, 2016
– Shelved as:
to-read
April 24, 2016
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2.12%
"The truth is that when his mind was completely gone, he had the strangest thought any lunatic in the world ever had, which was that it seemed reasonable and necessary to him, both for the sake of his honor and as a service to the nation, to become a knight errant and travel the world with his armor and his horse to seek adventures... righting all manner of wrongs and...winning eternal renown..."
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April 25, 2016
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3.93%
"Very New Testament: "Senor Knight, we do not know this good lady...; show her to us, for if she is as beautiful as you say, we will gladly and freely confess the truth you ask of us." "If I were to show her to you," replied Don Quixote, "where would the virtue be in your confessing so obvious a truth? The significance lies in not seeing her and believing, confessing, affirming, swearing, and defending that truth...""
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April 26, 2016
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5.54%
"Don Quixote approached a farmer who was a neighbor of his, a good man--if that title can be given to someone who is poor--but without much in the way of brains. In short, he told him so much, and persuaded and promised him so much, that the poor peasant resolved to go off with him and serve as his squire... With these promises... Sancho Panda...left his wife and children..."
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April 28, 2016
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9.88%
"Heaven made me, as all of you say, so beautiful that you cannot resist my beauty and are compelled to love me, and...you claim that I am obliged to love you in return. I know, with the natural understanding that God has given me, that everything beautiful is lovable, but I cannot grasp why...the thing loved for its beauty is obliged to love the one who loves it."
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May 2, 2016
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12.5%
""And what's clear to me in all this is that in the long run, these adventures we're looking for will bring us so many misadventures that we won't know our right foot from our left. And the better...thing, to the best of my poor understanding, would be for us to go back home now that it's harvesttime, and tend to our own affairs..." "How little you know, Sancho...about the matter of chivalry!""
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May 2, 2016
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12.8%
""Now turn your eyes...and you will see in front of and at the head of the other army the ever victorious and never defeated Timonel of Carcajona, prince of Nueva Vizcaya, who wears his armor quartered--blue, green, white, and yellow--and who bears on his shield a cat of gold on a tawny field, with a legend that reads: Meow..."
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May 8, 2016
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19.56%
"Tale XXV: "Therein lies the virtue," responded Don Quixote, "and the excellence of my enterprise, for a knight errant deserves neither glory nor thanks if he goes mad for a reason. The great achievement is to lose one's reason for no reason, and to let my lady know that if I can do this without cause, what should I not do if there were cause.""
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May 9, 2016
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19.66%
""Well, Sancho...Is it possible that in all the time you have traveled with me you have not yet noticed that all things having to do with knights errant appear to be chimerical, foolish, senseless, and turned inside out? And not because they really are, but because hordes of enchanters always walk among us and alter and change everything and turn things into whatever they please..."
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May 11, 2016
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23.19%
"ch XXVIII: The greatest wealth and nobility that they boasted of, however, was having me as their daughter, and since they had no other heir...and were very loving, I was one of the most pampered daughters ever doted on by her parents. I was the mirror in which they saw their reflection, the staff of their old age, and the object, after heaven, of all their desires..."
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May 14, 2016
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28.83%
"ch XXXIII: Remember that if a man seeks the impossible, the possible may justly be denied him."
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May 18, 2016
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32.86%
"From her silence they imagined that she undoubtedly was a Moor and could not speak Christian... "Tell me, Senor," said Dorotea, "is this lady a Christian or a Moor? Her dress and her silence make us think she is what we would rather she was not.""
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May 19, 2016
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33.57%
""I am prepared to say that it grieves my very soul that I have taken up the profession of knight errant in an age as despicable as the one we live in now, for although no danger can cause me to fear, it still fills me with misgivings to think that powder and tin may deprive me of the opportunity to become famous and renowned throughout the known world for the valor of my arm and the sharp edge of my sword.""
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May 24, 2016
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40.42%
"...what a rage overcame Don Quixote when he heard his squire's discourteous words!... "Oh, base, lowborn, wretched, rude, ignorant, foul-mouthed, ill-spoken, slanderous, insolent varlet! You have dared to speak such words in my presence... Leave my presence, unholy monster, repository of lies, stronghold of falsehoods, storehouse of deceits, inventor of iniquities, promulgator of insolence, enemy of...decorum..."
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May 25, 2016
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41.23%
"I am a knight errant, not one of those whose names were never remembered by Fame or eternalized in her memory, but one who in spite of envy herself, and in defiance of all the magi of Persia, brahmans of India, and gymnosophists of Ethiopia, will have his name inscribed in the temple of immortality so that it may serve as an example and standard to future times..."
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May 28, 2016
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45.56%
"I have finished Part One of Don Quixote and will take a break before reading the second part."
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452
December 10, 2016
– Shelved as:
on-hold
September 8, 2022
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32.86%
"From her silence they imagined that she undoubtedly was a Moor and could not speak Christian... "Tell me, Senor," said Dorotea, "is this lady a Christian or a Moor? Her dress and her silence make us think she is what we would rather she was not.""
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