“Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.”
“Don Quixote is not just Don Quixote; La Mancha is not just geography; It is our personal territory—Terra Nostra.”
“Don Quixote is not an imaginary person; he is as real as Alexander the Great.”
“The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panzas who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixotes with a sense for ideals, but mad.”
“It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.”
“perhaps because this time not fear but love made him read.”