![]() ![]() "We crossed spacious streets, with buildings resembling palaces, in La Rambla promenade the shops were well illuminated and there was movement and life… I did not decide to go to sleep, even though I wished to, so I could rise early and contemplate, in daylight, this city, unknown to me: Barcelona, capital of Catalonia." I have seen the lady April bringing in the daffodils,īringing the springing grass and the soft warm April rain." "I have seen dawn and sunset on moors and windy hillsĬoming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain: "I tried to photograph the mysterious, true and magical soul of popular Spain in all its passion, love, humor, tenderness, rage, pain, in all its truth and the fullest and most intense moments in the lives of these characters, as simple as they are irresistible, with all their inner strength." Eternal garden, shows remnants of paradise that still remain, in only very few privileged places on earth." "Granada, last refuge from a tiring life. “I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies to conquer a people numerous and warlike, whose manners and religion are very different from ours, who live in sierras and mountains, without fixed settlements, and where by divine will I have placed under the sovereignty of the King and Queen our Lords, an Other World, whereby Spain, which was reckoned poor, is become the richest of countries.” If you think how much are the drinks it is not night life.” Night life comes out of a bottle and goes into a jar. Night life goes round and round and you look at the wall to make it stop. Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill. Night life is when you get up with a hangover in the morning. "Spain is an overflow of sombreness, a strong and threatening tide of history meets you at the frontier." ![]() But when you can have the Prado at the same time as El Escorial two hours to the north and Toledo to the south, a fine road to Avila and a fine road to Segovia, which is no distance from La Granja, it makes you feel very badly, all question of immortality aside, to know that you will have to die and never see it again." The essence, when it is the essence, can be in a plain glass bottle and you need no fancy labels. It is in Madrid only that you get the essence. Yet when you get to know it, it is the most Spanish of all cities, the best to live in, the finest people, month in and month out the finest climate. It has none of the looks that you expect of Spain. I do not believe anyone likes it much when he first goes there. "In no part of the world is the landscape like that of Granada." "In rural Spain, at least, it is far better to arrive than to travel, however hopefully." "To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain." I went to a flamenco show in Spain, and it completely took my breath away." "I love dancing and music from Latin cultures. "Granada is like the beautiful, delicate land of our dreams all those who see her, dream of visiting her again." Go out and see your friends and eat tapas and drink red wine and be in a beautiful place." You know, work in the morning, have a one-hour nap in the afternoon, and at night go out and have that life. Appointments with a friend are habitually made for after midnight at the cafe." "Nobody goes to bed in Madrid until they have killed the night. ![]()
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