An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names, but are as alike in their principals and aims as two peas in the same pod.
Greatness of name in the father oft-times overwhelms the son; they stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth: so much, that we see the grandchild come more and oftener to be heir of the first.
So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.
Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
