179 quotes found
“There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.”
“We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.”
“Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.”
“-Do you think it's dirty money?-All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.”
“Driven by a wish to save Toms from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills.Like the good ape he is, m...”
“Evil presupposes a moral decision, intention, and some forethought. A moran or a lout, howeverm doesn't stop to think or reason.”
“The dead never go to their own funeral.”
“The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces like the power of lies, the greater the better. It's only natural, and you will have to find the ri...”
“Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.”
“I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.”
“Cada vez que un libro cambia de manos, cada vez que alguien desliza la mirada por sus pginas, su espritu crece y se hace fuerte. (Sempere)”
“Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war.... We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've learned about ourselves and about others, is an illus...”
“If there is a god, or hundreds of them, I hope they will forgive me for the harm I may have inflicted on you by telling you exactly what happened.”
“I imagine some people, like some toys, are born defective - which I suppose makes us all broken toys, don't you think?”
“nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds”
“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.”
“He was rather clumsy and shy and looked as if he'd spent the last ten years of his life locked up in a library - hardly the kind of man any girl your age dreams of ...”
“Keep your dreams, you will never know when you need them”
“The day I die, all that was once mine will be yours, Julin, he would say. Except my dreams.”
“There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies; the second your family. Sometimes the difference between them is hard to see, but in the end time will show you that the c...”
