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I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing the pain I had caused her and returning to her wh...more

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Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.

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Sometimes memories follow you wherever you go-you don't need to take them with you.

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Without further ado I left the place, finding my route by the marks I had made on the way in. As I walked in the dark through the tunnels and tunnels ...more

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This place is a mystery. A sanctuary. Every book, every volume you see, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it & the soul of those who read i...more

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He truly was a man of faith. He believed in his friends, in the truth of things and in something to which he didn’t dare put a name or a face because ...more

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I was no longer able to hear the music that issues from a decent piece of prose.

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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 that filtered through the c...more

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Ignatius B. Samson, welcome to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.

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To Senor Sempere, the best friend a book could ever have: you opened the doors to the world for me and showed me how to go through them.

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Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only fictions from a biography he'd never lived.

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Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

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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 ...more

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[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.

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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 w...more