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Cervantes Quotes

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.
George Byron

I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
Lord Byron

In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal.
Lytton Strachey

The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.
Leonardo Sciascia

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