Top Quotes & Sayings by Leopoldo Alas

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Spanish novelist Leopoldo Alas.
Last updated on September 30, 2024.
Leopoldo Alas

Leopoldo Enrique García-Alas y Ureña, also known as Clarín, was a Spanish realist novelist born in Zamora. His inflammatory articles, known as paliques (“chitchat”), as well as his advocacy of liberalism and anti-clericalism, made him a formidable and controversial critical voice. He died in Oviedo.

He who would prove all life, leaves it empty. To know the way of everything is to be left with the geometry of things and with the substance of nothing. To reduce the world to an equation is to leave it without head or feet.
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