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Few things are more deceptive than memories.

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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make...more

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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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We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, very few people are remotely interested or aware of t...more

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Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparitions. Calcutta has countless such stories hidden i...more

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He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets ...

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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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He would have liked to know that somebody wanted to keep him alive, that someone remembered him. He used to say that we exist as long as somebody reme...more

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Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war, Daniel. We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've l...more

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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... I got the feeling that...more

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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 was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.

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as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive