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Sopravvivere, e nella nostra natura. La fede e una risposta istintiva ad aspetti dell'esistenza che non possiamo spiegare in altro modo: il vuoto morale che percepiamo nell'universo, la certezza della morte, il mistero dell'origine delle cose o il senso della nostra vita, o la sua assenza. Sono aspetti elementari e di straordinaria semplicita, ma i nostri stessi limiti ci impediscono di rispondere in modo univoco a queste domande e per ques..
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Le interessa sconfiggere la solitudine e non perdere tempo a capire che in questo schifo di mondo niente vale un centesimo se non abbiamo qualcuno con cui condividerlo.
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Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it
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The night I met him Mijail told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looking for.
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When I saw my friend kissing the woman he loved it occurred to me that this moment, this instant stolen from time and from God, was worth all the days of misery that had brought us to this place and the many others that were doubtless waiting for us on our return to life. And that everything that was decent and clean and pure in this world and everything for which it was worth living and breathing was in those lips, in those hands and in th..
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occurred to me that their very presence was testimony to the moral emptiness of the universe and the mechanical brutality with which it destroys the parts it no longer needs.
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón |
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I know the world changes, but never in essence.
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When he noticed that the patient was awake, he smiled at him. "Are you a God or the devil? the dying man once asked him. The stranger shrugged and thought about it. "A bit of both", he answered at last. "In principle, I'm an atheist," the patient informed him. "Although in fact I have a lot of faith", "Like so many. Rest now, my friend. Heaven can wait. And hell is too small for you"."
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón |
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Se acabo lo de gratis, Fernandito. Bienvenido al capitalismo. --?No dicen que eso es malisimo? --Peor. Y te va a encantar. --?Cuando empiezo? --Ahora mismo.
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Uno no se da cuenta del vacio en el que ha dejado pasar el tiempo hasta que vive de verdad. A veces la vida, no los dias quemados, es solo un instante, un dia, una semana o un mes. Uno sabe que esta vivo porque duele, porque de repente todo importa y porque cuando ese breve momento se acaba, el resto de su existencia se transforma en un recuerdo al que intenta regresar en vano mientras le queda aliento en el cuerpo.
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era un hombre solitario que quemaba sus puentes con el mundo sin darse cuenta, o quiza lo hacia de forma deliberada porque pensaba que casi nada bueno podia cruzarlos.
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón |
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Nos miramos en la penumbra, buscando palabras que no existian. Aquella fue la primera vez en que me di cuenta de que mi padre envejecia y de que sus ojos, ojos de niebla y de perdida, siempre miraban atras. Se incorporo y descorrio las cortinas para dejar entrar la tibia luz del alba.
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Going over all this in my mind, it occurred to me that perhaps the papier-mache world that I accepted as real was only a stage setting. Much like the arrival of Spanish trains, in those stolen years you never knew when the end of childhood was due.
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She's a bit nutty. She spends all day reading.
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And if one day, kneeling at her graveside, you feel the fire of anger trying to take hold of you, remember that in my story, as in yours, there was an angel who holds all the answers.
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People only disappear when they have somewhere to go.
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Where my school friends saw notches on incomprehensible pages, I saw light, streets, and people. Words and the mystery of their hidden science fascinated me, and I saw in them a key with which I could unlock a boundless world, a safe haven from that home, those streets and those troubled days in which I could sense that only a limited fortune awaited me.
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A la hora de mentir lo que hay que tener en cuenta no es la plausibilidad del embuste, sino la codicia, vanidad y estupidez del destinatario.
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Fables] teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. This is what any of the religious texts teach us. They're all tales about characters who must confront life and overcome obstacles, figures setting off on a journey of spiritual enrichment through exploits and revelations. All holy books are, above all, great stories whose plots deal with th..
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Le speranze le hanno le persone, ma i destini li distribuisce il diavolo.
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perhaps because I'm unable to understand beyond my own prejudices or because there is nothing else to understand and the crux of the matter lies in simply believing or not believing, without stopping to wonder why.
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L'ansia e la ruggine dell'anima.
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life
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The female heart is a labyrinth of subtleties, too challenging for the uncouth mind of the male racketeer. If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is to win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.
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I got the feeling that Julian was living in the past, locked in his memories. Julian lived within himself, for his books and inside them--a comfortable prison of his own design." "You say this as if you envied him." "There are worse prisons than words, Daniel."
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We only remember what never happened.
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There's nothing here. Nothing at all.' Marina gave me a look that I could not fathom. 'You're wrong,' she said. 'The memories of hundreds of people lie here. Their lives, their feelings, their expectations, their absence, the dreams that never came true for them, the disappointments, the deceptions and the unrequited loves that poisoned their existence... All that is here, trapped for ever.
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A good father, if you see what I mean." "A good father?" "Yes. Like yours. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A man capable of listening, of leading and respecting a child, and not of drowning his own defects in him. Someone whom a child will not only love because he's his father but will also admire for the person he is. Someone he would want to grow up to resemble."
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Als guter Affe ist der Mensch ein soziales Wesen, und als wesentliche Norm ethischen Verhaltens zeichnen ihn Vetternwirtschaft, Nepotismus, Schwindel und Klatsch aus.
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What killed him was his loyalty to people who, when their time came, betrayed him. Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.
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otvetil ia s entuziazmom, kotorogo ne chuvstvoval. Zdes' nichto ne govorilo o vremeni, v kotorom my zhili. Bendzhamin Sentis predpochiol dlia sebia pliuskvamperfekt.
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and I kissed his forehead, as if by doing so I could protect him from the invisible threads that kept him away from me, from that tiny apartment, and from my memories, as if I believed that with that kiss I could deceive time and convince it to pass us by, to return some other day, some other life.
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Rest now, my friend. Heaven can wait. And hell is too small for you.
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There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honorable than to be someone.
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More or less everyone has lost someone, whatever side they belong to.
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A media perorata ya me habia quedado en blanco, bien por efecto de la formula explosiva o por la pirotecnia gramatical desplegada por mi buen amigo.
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No hace falta que lo diga si le da verguenza, porque los varones somos asi y la testosterona no alienta al verso.
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La experiencia ya le habia ensenado que el futuro le reservaria mas tiempos del tolerable para lamentarse de los errores cometidos en el pasado.
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It was my twenty-fourth birthday, and I knew that the best part of my life was already behind me.
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Julian had once told me that a story is a letter the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
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La tactica es el conjunto de pequenos pasos que das para llegar a algun sitio. La estrategia son los pasos que das cuando ya no hay ningun lugar para ir>>. Sheere alzo la vista y sonrio a Ben. <> pregunto Sheere. Ben no respondio. <> explico Ian. <> <> pregunto Sheere, divertida. <
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We are doomed to remember what never really happened.
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Don Gustavo, que se declaraba agnostico (lo cual la Bernarda sospechaba era una afeccion respiratoria, como el asma, pero de senoritos), opinaba que era matematicamente imposible que la criada pecase lo suficiente como para mantener semejante ritmo de confesion. --Si tu eres mas buena que el pan, Bernarda--decia, indignado--. Esta gente que ve pecado en todas partes esta enferma del alma y, si me apuras, de los intestinos. La condicion basi..
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