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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.

— Miguel de Unamuno Vida de Don Quijote y Sancho (1905)

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It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

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