Miguel de Cervantes

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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, Part I (1605), Ch. 1 (tr. Samuel Putnam)

  • Reading
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• I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.

  Don Quixote, Part II (1615), Ch. 33

  • Comedy

• The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.

  Don Quixote, Part II (1615), Ch. 16 (tr. Henry Edward Watts, 1895)

  • Writing

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