"Becoming a book collector is like joining a……" — Arturo Pérez-Reverte
"Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it’s for life."
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20 Quotes by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Arturo Pérez-Reverte has 20 quotes on this site.
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Centuries of make-up that can be smudged by emotion have taught women to control their feelings.
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Never trust a man who reads only one book.
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he looked around at the books on the walls, at their dark, worn spines, and he seemed to hear a…
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The world is full of banks and rivers running between them, of men and women crossing bridges and fords, unaware…
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You’ve just mentioned the price that has to be paid…Pride, freedom…Knowledge. Whether at the beginning or at the end, you…
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Because God and the devil could be one and the same thing, and everybody understood it in his own way.
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Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by…
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You don't choose your friends, they choose you, and you either reject them or you accept them without reservations.
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One is never alone with a book nearby, don't you agree? Every page reminds us of a day that has…
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Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that…
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I once wrestled with an angel. He won, but I learned a few things.
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...the problem with words is that once spoken, they cannot find their way back to the speaker alone.
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She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he…
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I'd love to remain a secret and still work, but I also want people to see the movies I'm in…
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Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the…
— J. G. Ballard
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Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was…
— Drew Barrymore
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Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of…
— Scott Adams
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
— Warren G. Bennis
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Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua…
— Warren G. Bennis
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Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting…
— Gael Garcia Bernal
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Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.
— Annie Besant
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Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may…
— Ambrose Bierce
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