179 quotes found
“History is biology's dumping ground”
“Never trust he who trusts everyone.”
“There are worse prisons than words.”
“The dead never go to their own funeral.”
“Few things are more deceptive than memories.”
“To truly hate is an art one learns with time.”
“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”
“Making money isn't hard in itself,' he complained. 'What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.”
“The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.”
“Making money isn't hard in itself,what's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting your life to”
“Man...heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand...heats up like an iron. Slowly, over a low heat, like tasty stew. But t...”
“One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isnt aware of it.”
“Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.”
“Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice. ”
“There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.”
“We all give up great expectations along the way.”
“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone ru...”
“that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.”
“One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too d...”
“People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.”
“Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.”
“I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten...”
“I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.”
“He was waiting for me at the best table in the room, toying with a glass of white wine and listening to the pianist who was playing a piece by Granados with velvet fingers.”
“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
