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| 339a65c | Ong da doc cau chuyen hai huoc cua Nodier ve nguoi suu tam sach chua? Chuyen xay ra voi toi dung nhu the. Toi san long ban chet bat ky mot tay tho dong sach nao neu han dung may xen giay qua vung. Toi cuc ky hanh phuc neu phat hien mot ban in de le rong hon hai milimet so voi thu duoc mo ta trong cac thu muc chuan. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 9c7c6f2 | hay un ejercicio fascinante, a medio camino entre la literatura y la vida: visitar lugares leidos en libros | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 12549a4 | Todo lo vivido aprovecha, de una u otra forma. Excepto para los fanaticos y los imbeciles. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| f1abbf9 | Se acerca la hora de que este siglo levante cadalsos y afile el cuchillo -concluye-. Y no hay mejor piedra de amolar cuchillos que la letra impresa. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| d5f733f | You can still turn back, he told himself. In that way, none of what happened has ever happened, and none of what will take place will ever take place. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 0912511 | Incluso aunque nuestros hombres y sus generales distaban de ser los mismos que cuando el duque de Alba y Alejandro Farnesio, los soldados espanoles continuaron siendo por algun tiempo la pesadilla de Europa; los mismos que habian capturado a un rey frances en Pavia, vencido en San Quintin, saqueado Roma y Amberes, tomado Amiens y Ostende, matado diez mil enemigos en el asalto de Jemmigen, ocho mil en Maastrich y nueve mil en La Esclusa, pel.. | ira spain tercios | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | |
| 9cfd95e | malditos sean quienes hacen posible que todo eso ocurra, y malditos sean tambien los alcaldes, los policias municipales y los guardias civiles y todos los demas que lo saben y lo consienten. Y es que hay chusma infame, gentuza sin conciencia, salvajes miserables a quienes seria insultar a los perros llamar hijos de perra. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| f615b20 | No habia piedad en ellos, ni siquiera esos apices de humanidad que a veces uno vislumbra incluso en los mas desalmados. Frailes, juez, escribano y verdugos se comportaban con una frialdad y un distanciamiento tan rigurosos que era precisamente lo que mas pavor producia; mas, incluso, que el sufrimiento que eran capaces de infligir: la helada determinacion de quien se sabe respaldado por leyes divinas y humanas, y en ningun momento pone en d.. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 0e9ad7c | found out later that he lived alone, surrounded by books, both his own and other people's, and that as well as being a hired hunter of books he was an expert on Napoleon's battles. He could set out on a board, from memory, the exact positions of troops on the eve of Waterloo. A | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 376853a | However, one certainty floated in the air: that night, at the end of a conversation that should have brought them closer, something had been broken between them, definitively and forever. He did not know what, but there was the unmistakable noise of pieces shattering to the ground about him. The young woman would never forgive him for his cowardice -- or for his resignation. | relationships | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | |
| fadb74d | En las nueve mil leguas que tiene de perimetro el mundo, no hay un solo lugar donde las supuestas ordenes de algun dios no hayan consagrado algun crimen. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| b7ed182 | Solo hay algo a lo que los hombres con cargos publicos, del rey al ministro, dice, temen mas que la educacion de sus subditos: la pluma de los buenos escritores. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| cdd4865 | nadie puede ser sabio sin haber leido por lo menos una hora al dia, sin tener biblioteca por modesta que sea, sin maestros a los que respetar, sin ser lo bastante humilde para formular preguntas y atender con provecho las respuestas... | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| fe3e787 | Si me dieran la inmortalidad absoluta a cambio de un dia de Purgatorio, rechazaria el trato. Que pereza, luego, todo el tiempo tocando el arpa en una nube, vestido con un ridiculo camison blanco... Lo mejor es dejar de existir. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| a81bb55 | Solo se trataba de cumplir las reglas --dice mientras cierra el armario--. La vida te situa ante ellas. Se asumen, se cumplen, y punto... Sin grandes gestos. Sin dramatismos. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| ceb2b2f | doce horas en la cama, cuatro en el tocador, cinco en visitas y tres de paseo, o en el teatro. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 4634460 | A ese tiempo infame lo llaman siglo de Oro. Mas lo cierto es que, quienes lo vivimos y sufrimos, de oro vimos poco; y de plata, la justa. Sacrificio esteril, gloriosas derrotas, corrupcion, picaresca, miseria y poca verguenza, de eso si que tuvimos a espuertas. Lo que pasa es que luego uno va y mira un cuadro de Diego Velazquez, oye unos versos de Lope o de Calderon, lee un soneto de don Francisco de Quevedo, y se dice que bueno, que tal ve.. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| b8e09ab | Cuando te adentras en el corazon de una mujer, te expones a un peligroso viaje. Hans Hellmut Kirst, Richard Sorge | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 53c930f | That was the problem with modern day witches , thought Corso : they didn't have any secrets . Everything was out in the open , you could read all about them in any Who's Who or gossip column . Baronesses or not , they had become predictable , vulgar . Torquemada would have been bored to death by it all . | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 7e5567d | In essence , games are the only universally serious activity . They leave no room for skepticism , wouldn't you agree ? However incredulous or doubting you might be , if you want to play , you have no choice but to follow the rules . Only the person who respects the rules , or at least knows and applies them , can win . Reading a book is the same : you have to accept the plot and the characters to enjoy the story . | reading | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | |
| 20fe8e6 | As far as cheating goes , you have illustrious predecessors . Theseus escaped from the labyrinth thanks to Ariadne's thread , Jason stole the golden fleece with Medea's help .... The Kaurabas used subterfuge to win at dice in the Mahabharata , and the Achaeans checkmated the Trojans by moving a wooden horse . Your conscience is clear . | games | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | |
| e3b2bbf | Para crear el infierno en el mar o en la tierra, no eran menester mas que un espanol y el filo de una espada. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 2ef6401 | El capitan, seguro de no resistir mucho rato frente a cinco hombres armados y diestros en el oficio, decidio no andarse con lindezas de esgrima, y en vez de curar su salud procuro desbaratar la de sus enemigos. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 35f48df | Love, Don Jaime, love," he went on after a moment of sad reflection. "That is the only thing that can make us happy and, paradoxically, it is also the thing that condemns us to our worst torments. To love is to be enslaved." | love | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | |
| 257eb40 | Sabe cual es el problema? Nos encontramos en la ultima de tres generaciones que la Historia tiene el capricho de repetir de cuando en cuando. La primera necesita un Dios, y lo inventa. La segunda levanta templos a ese Dios e intenta imitarlo. Y la tercera utiliza el marmol de esos templos para construir prostibulos donde adorar su propia codicia, su lujuria y su bajeza. Y es asi como a los dioses y los heroes los suceden siempre, inevitable.. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| dd2a353 | Y en el asedio de La Mamora del ano 1628, cuando los moros intentaron tomarnos aquella plaza, quienes cavaban las trincheras y dirigian las obras de asedio eran gastadores ingleses. Que a los hijos de puta, como es sabido, Dios los cria y ellos se juntan | moors motherfuckers | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | |
| 7bbd717 | quien mata de lejos lo ignora todo sobre el acto de matar. Quien mata de lejos ninguna leccion extrae de la vida ni de la muerte: ni arriesga, ni se mancha las manos de sangre, ni escucha la respiracion del adversario, ni lee el espanto, el valor o la indiferencia en sus ojos. Quien mata de lejos no prueba su brazo ni su corazon ni su conciencia, ni crea fantasmas que luego acudiran de noche, puntuales a la cita, durante el resto de su vida.. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| b6cd209 | En cuanto al diablo, solo es el dolor de Dios; la colera de un dictador cogido en su propia trampa. La historia contada del lado de los vencedores. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
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Y fue entonces cuando el capitan de la Cuesta, que andaba fatal de lenguas extranjeras pero tenia una memoria estupenda, dijo aquello de < |
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| dd7d393 | She studied it soberly, with something like recognition or acknowledgment in her eyes, as if those who have been dead understand things that will never be understood by those who have only lived. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 2685b1e | For lack of a keystone, the false arch may be as much as one can expect in this life. Only the very lucky discover the keystone. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 6d6b3df | If I had kept a journal, I could go back through it and check up on what memory reports plausibly but not necessarily truly. But keeping a journal then would have been like making notes while going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. Eventless as our life was, it swept us along. Were we any less a Now Generation that the one that presently claims the title? I wonder. And it may be just as well that I have no diary to remember by. Henry James sa.. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 66e265c | We used to think the world was so big. So indestructible. So fun. We still can't completely believe that it is as small and serious, as threatened and vulnerable, as we have made it. | David Gessner | ||
| 16c7a3b | As the country at large grows more stressful as a dwelling place, the quiet, remoteness, and solitude of a week on a wild river become more and more precious to more and more people. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| a3486f4 | Westerners live outdoors more than people elsewhere because outdoors is mainly what they've got. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 553a319 | Literature is a function of temperament, and thank God there are many kinds of temperament and therefore many kinds of literature. I can speak only for my own, and after considerable acquaintance I have determined that my temperament is quiet, recessive, skeptical, and watchful. I don't like big noisy scenes, in fiction or in life. I avoid riots and mass meetings. It would embarrass me to chase fire engines. I have a hard enough time making.. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 7f16603 | and so give your uncommon readers a chance to join you in the solidarity of pain and love and the vision of human possibility. But isn't it enough? For lack of the full heart's desire, won't it serve? | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 9978dbf | Es lasst sich wohl kaum abstreiten... dass die Vorstellung von einem freien, ungebundenen Leben uns seit jeher berauscht und beflugelt hat. In unserer Gedankenwelt verbinden wir damit die Flucht vor der Last der Geschichte, vor Unterdruckung, dem Gesetz und lastigen Verpflichtungen. Wir sehen uns nach der absoluten Freiheit, und der Weg dorthin fuhrte schon immer gen Westen. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| e709781 | No place is a place until it has found its poet. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 30fad1f | Ambition is a path, not a destination, and it is essentially the same path for everybody. No matter what the goal is, the path leads through Pilgrim's Progress regions of motivation, hard work, persistence, stubbornness, and resilience under disappointment. Unconsidered, merely indulged, ambition becomes a vice; it can turn a man into a machine that knows nothing but how to run. Considered, it can be something else - pathway to the stars, m.. | drive motivational | Wallace Stegner | |
| 95906b4 | I would like to hear your life as you heard it, coming at you, instead of hearing it as I do, a sober sound of expectations reduced, desires blunted, hopes deferred or abandoned, chances lost, defeats accepted, griefs borne. I don't find your life uninteresting, as Rodman does. I would like to hear it as it sounded while it was passing. Having no future of my own, why shouldn't I look forward to yours. | obsession past writing | Wallace Stegner | |
| b157b1f | There is something about all beards that is like the gesture of thumbing the nose. Thank you very much. Up yours. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 80786b2 | The mountains of the Great Divide are not, as everyone knows, born treeless, though we always think of them as above timberline with the eternal snows on their heads. They wade up through ancient forests and plunge into canyons tangled up with watercourses and pause in little gem-like valleys and march attended by loud winds across high plateaus, but all such incidents of the lower world they leave behind them when they begin to strip for t.. | mountains | Wallace Stegner | |
| 9a06634 | But I would like to hear your life as you heard it, coming at you, instead of hearing it as I do, a somber sound of expectations reduced, desires blunted, hopes deferred or abandoned, chances lost, defeats accepted, griefs borne. | Wallace Stegner |