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“Do you think I’ve lived the life I was supposed to live, that I’ve not fallen short of expectations?”
A legend is a lie that has been whipped up to explain a universal truth.
once the business of food and home has been solved, the next thing humans strive for are reasons to feel superior to others, and resources with which to demonstrate that superiority.
Time, Fernandito realized, always flows at the opposite speed to the needs of the person living through it.
When it comes to lying, what one must consider is not the plausibility of the fib but the greed, fear, and stupidity of the receiver.
the level of barbarism in a society is measured by the distance it tries to create between women and books.
A story is an endless labyrinth of words, images, and spirits, conjured up to show us the invisible truth about ourselves.
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.
Carax taught me that a book is never finished and that, with luck, it’s the book that leaves us so we don’t spend the rest of eternity rewriting it.
