Only three or four things are worth living for; the rest is shit.
("The Shadow of the Wind")
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Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.Carlos Ruiz Zafón
One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn't aware of it.
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There are worse prisons than words.
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But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.
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Man...heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand...heats up like an iron. Slowly, over a low heat, like tasty stew. But then, once she has heated up, there's no stopping her.
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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 comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the beart are already too deep.
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