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Everyone gets the devil he deserves.
Arturo Pérez-Reverte / Novelist
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Devil
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Never trust a man who reads only one book.
Arturo Pérez-Reverte / Novelist
Men
Book
Never Trust
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I once wrestled with an angel. He won, but I learned a few things.
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Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it’s for life.
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Becoming
Book
Joining
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What about the future?" "We'll talk about the future when it gets here.
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Centuries of make-up that can be smudged by emotion have taught women to control their feelings.
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Emotion
Feelings
Taught
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...the problem with words is that once spoken, they cannot find their way back to the speaker alone.
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Problem
Speakers
Way
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Because God and the devil could be one and the same thing, and everybody understood it in his own way.
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Devil
Understood
Way
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You don't choose your friends, they choose you, and you either reject them or you accept them without reservations.
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Accepting
Rejects
Reservations
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She loves you, loathes you, treats you well, then ill. Like a leech or a surgeon's knife, she's double-edged: sometimes she'll cure, but sometimes she will kill.
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Knives
Leeches
Love You
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Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.
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Art
Kings
Father
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Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten roads that no one travels anymore.
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Fascination
Grace
Loneliness
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One is never alone with a book nearby, don't you agree? Every page reminds us of a day that has passed and makes us relive the emotions that filled it. Happy hours underlined in red pencil, dark ones in black.
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Black
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Dark
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The world is full of banks and rivers running between them, of men and women crossing bridges and fords, unaware of the consequences, not looking back or beneath their feet, and with no loose change for the boatman.
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Running
Men
Bridges
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You’ve just mentioned the price that has to be paid…Pride, freedom…Knowledge. Whether at the beginning or at the end, you have to pay for everything. Even courage, don’t you think? And don’t you think a lot of courage is needed to fight God?
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Fighting
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Thinking
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he looked around at the books on the walls, at their dark, worn spines, and he seemed to hear a strange, distant murmur coming from them. each of the closed books was a door, and behind it stirred shadows, voices, sounds, heading toward him from a deep, dark place.
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Dark
Wall
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Of all the universal lies she accepted unquestioningly, the happy ending was the most absurd. The hero and heroine lived happily ever after, and the ending seemed indisputable, definitive. No questions asked about how long love or happiness lasts in that 'forever' that can be divided into lifetimes, years, months. Even days
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Hero
Lying
Years
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Later, with time, I learned that although all men are capable of good and evil, the worst among them are those who, when they commit evil, do so by shielding themselves in the authority of others, in their subordination, or in the excuse of following orders. And even worse are those who believe they are justified by their God.
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Men
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Order
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