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“Van Doren aptly characterizes Don Quixote as a book of ‘mysterious simplicity’: ‘The sign of its simplicity is that it can be summarized in a few sentences. The sign of its mysteriousness is that it can be talked about forever. It has indeed been talked about as no other story ever was. For a strange thing happens to its readers. They do not read the same book…. There were never so many theories about anything, one is tempted to say, as there are about Don Quixote. Yet it survives them all, as a masterpiece must do, if it would live.'”

- Simon Leys, June 11, 1998, in The New York Review of Books

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