Quotes by Mariano José de Larra

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Literature is the expression, the true thermometer of the state of civilization of a people... The word, spoken or written, is nothing but the representation of ideas, that is, of progress...

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We want a literature that is the fruit of experience and history and therefore the beacon of the future, a literature full of core, analytical, philosophical, deep, that reflects on everything and says everything, in prose, in verse... o apostolic and propaganda literature, showing truths to those who want to know them by depicting man, not only as he should be, but also as he is, in order to know him; a literature, finally, which would be the expression of all the knowledge of the age, of the intellectual progress of the age.