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- One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to…
- Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.
- 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…
- Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.
- As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step…
- To truly hate is an art one learns with time.
- . . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?" “Probably because a stranger sees us the…
- One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn’t aware of it.
- But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.
- I was secretly convinced that with such a marvel one would be able to write anything, from novels to encyclopedias, and letters whose supernatural power…
- Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself and one's limitations.…
- I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.
- I decided that my existence would be one of books and silence.
- One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.
- ... , listening to the storm outside as it left the city, knowing that I was going to lose her but also knowing that, for…
- Nothing is fair. The most one can hope is for things to be logical. Justice is a rare illness in a world that is otherwise…
- 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…
- 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…
- I discovered that seventeen-year-old girls have such huge verbal energy that their brain drives them to expend it every twenty seconds. On the third day…
- One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.
- Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.
- Life had taught her that we all require big and small lies in order to survive, just as much as we need air. She used…
- Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it in the most pompous and pedantic way possible?... Is it…
- 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.…
- Who are the lunatics? The ones who see horror in the heart of their fellow humans and search for peace at any price? Or the…
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