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People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.
I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.
I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative.
You women listen more to your heart and less to all the nonsense. That's why you live longer.
A Gentleman's agreement cannot be broken without breaking the person who has entered into it.
It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.
We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music
It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.
And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything.
Deep down we've never been who we think we once were, and we only remember what never happened.
I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.
Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.
I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.
Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.
Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.
The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.
But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.
I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.
The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.
Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them.
A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared.
A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.
I hoped my absence made them happy or at least made them forget that they weren't happy and never will be.
Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.
One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.
Where he had failed, I would triumph. Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of the labyrinth.
Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.
Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.
I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.
There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.
The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.
I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.
Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.
Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.
Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.
It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.
It was a well-known fact that the richness of buttery foods led to the moral ruin and confusion of the intellect.
The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.' - Senor Sempere.
Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel.
Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened.
Blaming TV as an abstract entity is nonsensical. It's our hand on the remote. There's a world out there outside the tube.
Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.
Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.
Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood.
The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.
A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.
Army, Marriage, the Church, and Baking: the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse. Fermin Romero de Torres - The Shadow of the Wind.