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

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There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.

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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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Aryami Bose's home had been closed up for years, inhabited only by books and paintings, but the spectre of thousands of memories imprisoned between it...more

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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. It's...more

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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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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

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... Few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think h...more

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Never before had I felt trapped, so seduced and caught up in a story,' Clara explained, 'the way I did with that book. Until then, reading was just a ...more

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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.

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He let the hours go by lost in the magic of words, shedding his skin and his name, feeling like another person. He allowed himself to be carried away ...more

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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 what we already carry insi...more

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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 b...more

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I started off for home, where I planned to recruit a good book and hide away from the world.

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Cada vez que un libro cambia de manos, cada vez que alguien desliza la mirada por sus páginas, su espíritu crece y se hace fuerte. (Sempere)