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There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.
It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality.
While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.
In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.
I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
I decided that my existence would be one of books and silence.
I like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations.
Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.
Everything can be forgiven in this world, save telling the truth.
A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.
Destiny doesn't do home visits... you have to go for it yourself.
You end up becoming someone you see in the eyes of those you love.
Everything in life in nonsense. it's just a question of persepctive
In principle I'm an atheist, although in fact I have a lot of faith
It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.
All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind
A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.
We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.
Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.
This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.
Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
If people thought a quarter of what they speak, this world would be heaven.
Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.
I turned you into a stranger in order to forget you and now I'm the stranger.
Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.
Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.
One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn’t aware of it.
I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.
Resentment slowly poisoned my blood and I laughed at myself and my absurd hopes.
Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.
Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.
People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.
I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.
Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.
There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honourable than to be someone.
It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.
Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.
The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.
That's what happens when people reach old age; nobody remembers they've been bastards too.
Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.
Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.
-Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.
Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.