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- Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book…
- I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.
- Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only…
- 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…
- 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,…
- In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply an accident of…
- Well, this is a story about books." About books?" About accursed books, about a man who wrote them, about a character who broke out of…
- Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
- Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.
- In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.
- After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while…
- 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…
- 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.
- I decided that my existence would be one of books and silence.
- Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.
- As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light…
- Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.
- I looked up towards the immensity of the labyrinth. "How does one choose a single book among so many?" Isaac shrugged his shoulders. 'Some like…
- Normal people bring children into the world; we novelists bring books. We are condemned to put our whole lives into them, even though they hardly…
- A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.
- I wondered what on earth she saw in me that could make her want to befriend me, other than a pale reflection of herself, an…
- I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this…
- He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or in other people...…
- Write," he said. "I'll write to you as soon as I get there," answered Julian. "No. Not to me. Write books. Not letters. Write them…
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