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Through her, through your Aldonza, through women you will see into the entire universe.
Vida de Don Quijote y Sancho (1905)
Whosoever will investigate the memorials of primitive times will find this ideal of woman in its full force and purity; the Universe is woman.
Even in the purest realm of the spirit, without the shadow of any vice, man seeks support in woman, as Francis of Assisi did in Clare.
Vida de Don Quijote y Sancho (1905)
Woman yields herself to the lover because she feels that his desire makes him suffer. Isabel had compassion upon Lorenzo, Juliet upon Romeo, Francesca upon Paolo. Woman seems to say: "Come, poor one, thou shalt not suffer so for my sake!" And therefore is her love more loving and purer than that of man, braver and more enduring.
Del sentimiento trágico de la vida (1913)
All the charity of a woman, all the good she can do, the alms she gives, comes from her feeling herself a mother. And it was with the souls of mothers that the whores asked Don Quixote if he wanted something to eat. Behold, then, how his madness converted them into maidens; for all women, when they feel themselves mothers, are turned into maidens.
Vida de Don Quijote y Sancho (1905)