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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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Now, back in the reality that always lies in wait among the shadows of the Ensanche quarter, the enchantment was lifting, and all I had was painful de...more

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Youth is like a fickle girlfriend. We can't understand or value her until she goes off with someone else, never to return.

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A young man is the perfect soldier. He has great potential for aggression and a limited critical capacity—or none at all—with which to analyze it and ...more

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A young man is the perfect soldier. He has great potential for aggression and a limited critical capacity - or none at all - with which to analyze it ...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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The only thing I can recall is that it rained all day and all night, and that when I asked my father whether heaven was crying, he couldn't bring hims...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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You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.

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Jacinta never told Penelope that she loved her. The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.

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I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time. It was the early summer of 1945, and we walked throu...more

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Keep your dreams, you will never know when you need them

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The day I die, all that was once mine will be yours, Julián, he would say. Except my dreams.