Saturday, August 13, 2005

neither heaven has created nor hell seen any that can daunt or intimidate me

Don Quixote:
"neither heaven has created nor hell seen any that can daunt or intimidate me . . ."
Part I: Chapter 46
Don Quixote -- by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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"Hell has not seen, nor heaven created, the one who can prevail against me!"
--Peter O'Toole as Don Quixote de la Mancha in MAN OF LA MANCHA (1972)

"'Life as it is.' I have lived for over forty years and I've seen 'life as it is'. Pain. Misery. Cruelty beyond belief. I've heard all the voices of God's noblest creature -- moans from bundles of filth in the street. I've been a soldier and a slave. I've seen my comrades fall in battle or die more slowly under the lash in Africa. I've held them at the last moment. These were men who saw 'life as it is,' but they died despairing. No glory. No bray of last words. Only their eyes, filled with confusion, questioning, 'Why?' I do not think they were asking why they were dying, but why they had ever lived. When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasure where there is only trash. Too much sanity may be madness. But maddest of all -- to see life as it is, and not as it should be!"
--Peter O'Toole as Miguel de Cervantes in MAN OF LA MANCHA (1972)

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