When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Too much sanity may be madness. To seek treasure where there is only trash. Perhaps to be practiced is madness. And madness of all, to see life as it is and not as it ought to be.
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But if you build your life on dreams it's prudent to recall a man with moonlight in his hands has nothing there at all.
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
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I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
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Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all - to see life as it is, and not as it ought to be.
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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
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While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.
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