He's a muddle-headed fool, with frequent lucid intervals.

Es un entreverado loco, lleno de lucidos intervalos.

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote

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Topic

Duality of man Stupidity

Author

Miguel de Cervantes

Source

Don Quixote

Medium

Novel

Language

Spanish

Time

1615 1610s 17th century

Era

Spanish Golden Age

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

Spain Europe

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Original Citation

De Cervantes, Miguel. El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha [The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha]. Madrid: Francisco de Robles, 1605.

Current Citation

De Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quixote, translated and edited by John Rutherford. Penguin Classics, 2003.

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The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Jose Ortega y Gasset
Medium
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Language
Spanish
Time
1925 1920s 20th century
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Original Citation

Ortega y Gasset, Jose. La deshumanización del Arte e Ideas sobre la novela [The Dehumanization of Art and Ideas about the Novel]. Revista de Occidente, 1925.

Current Citation

Ortega y Gasset, Jose. "The Dehumanization of Art." The Dehumanization of Art, and Other Essays on Art, Culture, and Literature, translated by Helene Weyl. Princeton University Press, 2019.