Dichoso el árbol, que es apenas sensitivo,
y más la piedra dura porque esa ya no siente,
pues no hay dolor más grande que el dolor de ser vivo,
ni mayor pesadumbre que la vida consciente.
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Blessed is the almost insensitive tree, more blessed is the hard stone that doesn't feel, for no pain is greater than the pain of being alive, and no sorrow more intense than conscious life.
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Cantos de vida y esperanza (1901), "Lo fatal" ("Fatalism")
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Quoted in Chambers Dictionary of Quotations (1997), p. 305Ruben Dario
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.Vittorio Alfieri
Pues el delito mayor
Del hombre es haber nacido.Pedro Calderon de la Barca
I have been in my bed for five weeks, oppressed with weakness and other infirmities from which my age, seventy four years, permits me not to hope release. Added to this (proh dolor! [O misery!]) the sight of my right eye — that eye whose labors (dare I say it) have had such glorious results — is for ever lost. That of the left, which was and is imperfect, is rendered null by continual weeping.
Galileo Galilei
Vivo y viviré por la Iglesia; vívo y moriré por ella.
Francisco Palau
Dario, Ruben
Darius I of Persia
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