People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.
("The Shadow of the Wind")
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Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that 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 we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later-no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget-we will return.
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I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.
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To truly hate is an art one learns with time.
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They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.
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It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.
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