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Baltasar drew back feeling somewhat bewildered, I don't know anything about flying, I'm a simple peasant, apart from tilling the soil, all they ever taught me was how to kill, and as you can see, I've only one hand, With that hand and that hook you can manage anything, and there are certain jobs that a hook can do better than a human hand, a hook feels no pain when it grips a piece of wire or metal, it doesn't get cut or burned, I assure yo..
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Tanto nos cuesta la idea de que tenemos que morir, dijo la mujer del medico, que siempre buscamos disculpas para los muertos, es como si anticipadamente estuviesemos pidiendo que nos disculpen cuando nos llegue la vez.
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Whether is is a good or bad deal depends, for money does not always keep its value, unlike mankind, whose value is always the same, everything and nothing.
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A beast on hire, it goes where it is taken and carries whatever is loaded on its back, one journey is much the same as any other for the poor donkey, but if only they could all be journeys like this one, the donkey has been free of baggage for most of the way and has worn a garland of lilies around his ears, so perhaps the springtime of donkeys will soon be here.
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It is late afternoon, there is neither wind nor breeze nor whiff of air, you can feel the air on your skin as if it were another skin, there is no perceptible difference between Balthasar and the world, and between the world and Blimunda what difference could there be.
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A ljudu i ne sanjaju da onaj ko zavrshi jednu stvar nije onaj isti koji je tu stvar zapocheo...] Zhoze Saramago ,,Godina smrti Rikarda Reisha
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It was time to begin making notes on how the search was going, the people he had met, the conversations he had had, his thoughts, his plans and tactics for an investigation that promised to be complex, The steps taken by someone in search of someone else, he thought, and the truth is, that although the process was only in its early stages, he already had a lot to say, If this were a novel, he murmured as he opened the notebook, the conversa..
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Now we live in the empire of oil and money -- the rest is disguise.
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Doesn't anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer?
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I write to try to understand, and because I have nothing better to do.
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To me, the Bible is a book. Important, no doubt, but a book.
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Death is the inventor of God.
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The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.
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That night the blind man dreamt that he was blind.
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You know the name you were given, You do not know the name you have
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perhaps that's how you learn, by answering questions.
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Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.
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No life is without its lies.
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In order to protect the physical hygiene and mental health of the living, we usually bury the dead.
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What the eye doesn't see the heart doesn't grieve over.
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That it's possible not to see a lie even when it's in front of us.
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Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.
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Destiny isn't taken in by people trying to make what came first come afterwards.
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Even the strongest spirits have the moments of irresistible weakness,
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Earthenware is like people, it needs to be well treated.
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The only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards.
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Where do begin, he asked, Where you always have to begin, at the beginning,
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Each part in itself constitutes the whole to which it belongs.
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Age carries with it a double load of guilt,
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Don't quibble with the king over pears, let him eat the ripe ones and give you the green ones.
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It's is the old who age a day every hour,
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The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.
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Creating is always so much more stimulating than destroying.
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Lord knows why they depict death with wings when death is everywhere.
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Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.
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T]here are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.
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Worse still if that sameness should ever become total.
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