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Never trust a man who reads only one book.
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You don't choose your friends, they choose you, and you either reject them or you accept them without reservations.
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Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten roads that no one travels anymore.
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte |
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One is never alone with a book nearby, don't you agree? Every page reminds us of a day that has passed and makes us relive the emotions that filled it. Happy hours underlined in red pencil, dark ones in black...
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Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.
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Everyone gets the devil he deserves.
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Because God and the devil could be one and the same thing, and everybody understood it in his own way.
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte |
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No era el hombre mas honesto ni el mas piadoso, pero era un hombre valiente.
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What about the future?" "We'll talk about the future when it gets here."
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the problem with words is that once spoken, they cannot find their way back to the speaker alone.
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As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. And when I want to know something, I look it up in books--their memory never fails
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Nadie deberia irse sin dejar una Troya ardiendo a sus espaldas.
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Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it's for life.
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Of all the universal lies she accepted unquestioningly, the happy ending was the most absurd. The hero and heroine lived happily ever after, and the ending seemed indisputable, definitive. No questions asked about how long love or happiness lasts in that 'forever' that can be divided into lifetimes, years, months. Even days
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You've just mentioned the price that has to be paid...Pride, freedom...Knowledge. Whether at the beginning or at the end, you have to pay for everything. Even courage, don't you think? And don't you think a lot of courage is needed to fight God?
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Films are for everyone, collective, generous, with children cheering when the cavalry arrives. And they're even better on TV: two can watch and comment. But your books are selfish. Solitary. Some of them can't even be read, they fall to bits if you open them. A person who's interested only in books doesn't need other people, and that frightens me
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The world is full of banks and rivers running between them, of men and women crossing bridges and fords, unaware of the consequences, not looking back or beneath their feet, and with no loose change for the boatman.
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte |
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Whenever I got any money, I invested it in books. When my savings dwindled, I got rid of everything else--pictures, furniture, china. I think you understand what it is to be a passionate collector of books...
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Los libros son puertas que te llevan a la calle, decia Patricia. Con ellos aprendes, te educas, viajas, suenas, imaginas, vives otras vidas y multiplicas la tuya por mil.
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Later, with time, I learned that although all men are capable of good and evil, the worst among them are those who, when they commit evil, do so by shielding themselves in the authority of others, in their subordination, or in the excuse of following orders. And even worse are those who believe they are justified by their God.
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Desconfien siempre vuestras mercedes de quien es lector de un solo libro.
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L]ife is like an expensive restaurant where, sooner or later, someone always hands you the bill, which is not to say that you should deny the joy and pleasure afforded by the dishes already eaten.
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El heroismo ajeno siempre conmueve una barbaridad.
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He did not want to think, but it was inevitable that he would.
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Respecto a los perros, nadie que no haya convivido con ellos conocera nunca, a fondo, hasta donde llegan las palabras generosidad, compania y lealtad. Nadie que no haya sentido en el brazo un hocico humedo intentando interponerse entre el libro que estas leyendo y tu, en demanda de una caricia, o haya contemplado esa noble cabeza ladeada, esos ojos grandes, oscuros, fieles, mirar en espera de un gesto o una simple palabra, podra entender de..
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Who are you?" "The devil," she said. "The devil in love."
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El problema de las palabras es que, una vez echadas, no pueden volverse solas a su dueno. De modo que a veces te las vuelven en la punta de un acero.
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte |
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No fear is unbearable, she concluded, unless you've got time on your hands and a healthy imagination.
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I'm afraid of wooden horses, cheap gin, and pretty girls. Especially when they give me presents. And when they go by the name of the woman who defeated Sherlock Holmes.
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It was one of Diego Alatriste's virtues that he could make friends in Hell.
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despite my youth I already suspected that it did no harm to keep my ears open. Just the opposite. In life, danger lies not in not knowing, but in revealing that you do: It is always good to have a sense of the music before the dance begins.
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You can make a text mean anything, especially if it's old and full of ambiguities.
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En un mundo donde el horror se vende como arte, donde el arte nace ya con la pretension de ser fotografiado, donde convivir con las imagenes del sufrimiento no tiene relacion con la conciencia ni con la compasion, las fotos de guerra no sirven para nada.
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It really doesn't bother me," she said. "I've always thought it stupid to try to hide your age, or to pretend to be younger than you are. Denying your age is like denying your life."
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You're forgetting about God. He doesn't interest me. God tolerates the intolerable, he is irresponsible and inconsistent. He is not a gentleman.
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And which devil do you prefer? Dante's?" "No. Much too terrifying. Too medieval for my taste." "Mephistopheles?" "Not him, either. He's too pleased with himself. Too much a trickster, like a crooked lawyer ... Anyway, I never trust people who smile a lot." "What about the one in The Karamazovs?" "Petty. A civil servant with dirty nails. I suppose the devil I prefer is Milton's fallen angel."
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No le tolero eso. --Pues revise usted, si es tan amable, sus limites de tolerancia.
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte |
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Nos hacemos fotos, no con el objeto de recordar, sino para completarlas despues con el resto de nuestras vidas. Por eso hay fotos que aciertan y fotos que no. Imagenes que el tiempo pone en su lugar, atribuyendo a unas su autentico significado, y negando otras que se apagan solas, igual que si los colores se borraran con el tiempo.
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte |
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She had discovered with surprise and pleasure that as she turned each page, the book was written, as if for the first time, all over again.
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Amicizia..." Corso si guardo attorno, aspettando che qualcuno gli spiegasse la parola. "I bar e i cimiteri sono pieni di amici inseparabili."
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte |
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Es la duda la que mantiene joven a la gente. La certeza es como un virus maligno. Te contagia de vejez.
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte |
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It's a beautiful thing to refuse to forget...
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte |
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But one never knows how the dice will fall, and they are always cast before anyone even notices.
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte |
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Mientras hay muerte - apunto- hay esperanza. - ?Es otra cita? - Es un chiste malo.
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