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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arturo-p-rez-reverte/love-don-jaime-love-he-went-on-after-a-moment-of-sad-reflection-that/)

[Arturo Pérez-Reverte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arturo-p-rez-reverte/)

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## More by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

> [“He who kills from afar knows nothing at all about act of killing. He who kills from afar derives no lesson from life or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arturo-p-rez-reverte/he-who-kills-from-afar-knows-nothing-at-all-about-act-of-killing-he/)

[Arturo Pérez-Reverte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arturo-p-rez-reverte/)

> [“One day he reads his friend's novel and discovers that Ishmael's account and his own memories of what happened are completely different. So he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arturo-p-rez-reverte/one-day-he-reads-his-friend-s-novel-and-discovers-that-ishmael-s/)

[Arturo Pérez-Reverte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arturo-p-rez-reverte/)

> [The world is full of banks and rivers running between them, of men and women crossing bridges and fords, unaware of the consequences, not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arturo-p-rez-reverte/the-world-is-full-of-banks-and-rivers-running-between-them-of-men-and/)

[Arturo Pérez-Reverte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arturo-p-rez-reverte/)

> [“You can still turn back, he told himself. In that way, none of what happened has ever happened, and none of what will take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arturo-p-rez-reverte/you-can-still-turn-back-he-told-himself-in-that-way-none-of-what/)

[Arturo Pérez-Reverte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arturo-p-rez-reverte/)

> [“And then it struck her that life was sometimes so beautiful that it didn't seem like life at all.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arturo-p-rez-reverte/and-then-it-struck-her-that-life-was-sometimes-so-beautiful-that-it/)

[Arturo Pérez-Reverte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arturo-p-rez-reverte/)

> [“However, one certainty floated in the air: that night, at the end of a conversation that should have brought them closer, something had been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arturo-p-rez-reverte/however-one-certainty-floated-in-the-air-that-night-at-the-end-of-a/)

[Arturo Pérez-Reverte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arturo-p-rez-reverte/)

> [“What happens is that Fate, which enjoys spicing things up with a dash of the unforeseen, determines that everything must have an end, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arturo-p-rez-reverte/what-happens-is-that-fate-which-enjoys-spicing-things-up-with-a-dash/)

[Arturo Pérez-Reverte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arturo-p-rez-reverte/)

> [ “\[L\]ife is like an expensive restaurant where, sooner or later, someone always hands you the bill, which is not to say that you should… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arturo-p-rez-reverte/l-ife-is-like-an-expensive-restaurant-where-sooner-or-later-someone/)

[Arturo Pérez-Reverte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arturo-p-rez-reverte/)

> [Everyone gets the devil he deserves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arturo-p-rez-reverte/everyone-gets-the-devil-he-deserves/)

[Arturo Pérez-Reverte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arturo-p-rez-reverte/)

> [“Whenever I got any money, I invested it in books. When my savings dwindled, I got rid of everything else—pictures, furniture, china. I think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arturo-p-rez-reverte/whenever-i-got-any-money-i-invested-it-in-books-when-my-savings/)

[Arturo Pérez-Reverte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arturo-p-rez-reverte/)

> [“And which devil do you prefer? Dante's?" "No. Much too terrifying. Too medieval for my taste." "Mephistopheles?" "Not him, either. He's too pleased with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arturo-p-rez-reverte/and-which-devil-do-you-prefer-dante-s-no-much-too-terrifying-too/)

[Arturo Pérez-Reverte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arturo-p-rez-reverte/)

> [“Don Jaime relied on this to conserve what he defined as serenity: peace of mind and soul, the only fragment of wisdom to which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arturo-p-rez-reverte/don-jaime-relied-on-this-to-conserve-what-he-defined-as-serenity/)

[Arturo Pérez-Reverte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arturo-p-rez-reverte/)

> [“As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. And when I want to know something, I look it up in books--their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arturo-p-rez-reverte/as-for-me-all-i-know-is-that-i-know-nothing-and-when-i-want-to-know/)

[Arturo Pérez-Reverte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arturo-p-rez-reverte/)

> [“—Allí jamás será aquí”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arturo-p-rez-reverte/all-jam-s-ser-aqu/)

[Arturo Pérez-Reverte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arturo-p-rez-reverte/)

> [“He was not the most honest or pious of men, but he was courageous”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arturo-p-rez-reverte/he-was-not-the-most-honest-or-pious-of-men-but-he-was-courageous/)

[arturo perez-reverte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arturo-p-rez-reverte/)

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