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“You don't look well," he pronounced."Indigestion," I replied."From what?""Reality.""Join the queue.”
“Every piece of that marvelous world was a silent tear.”
“You don't know what thirst is until you drink for the first time.”
“In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams.”
“This is a place of mystery, Daniel, a sanctuary. 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...”
“The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.”
“Jacinta never told Penelope that she loved her. The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.”
“He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets ...”
“The only thing I can recall is that it rained all day and all night, and that when I asked my father whether heaven was crying, he couldn't bring himself to reply. Six years later my mother's absen...”
“Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.”
“Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.”
“If you don't trust a novelist, who are you going to trust?”
“I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those...”
“He truly was a man of faith. He believed in his friends, in the truth of things and in something to which he didnt dare put a name or a face because he said as priests that was our job. Senor Sempe...”
“Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that dont stop at your station.”
“We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, very few people are remotely interested or aware of their own recent history, much less their neighb...”
“They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had ...”
“Max had once read in one of his father's books that some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like scenes you can return to again and again and will always remember, no ma...”
“future could be read much more clearly in the streets, factories, and barracks than in the morning press.”
“Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.”
