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The problem with words is that once spoken, they cannot find their way back to the speaker alone.

You can make a text mean anything, especially if it's old and full of ambiguities.

I ask myself how other people see me, and I hope they see me from way far away.

A reader is the total of all he's read, in addition to all the films and television he's seen.

No fear is unbearable, she concluded, unless you've got time on your hands and a healthy imagination.

You're forgetting about God.
He doesn't interest me. God tolerates the intolerable, he is irresponsible and inconsistent. He is not a gentleman.

Everyone gets the devil he deserves.

Never trust a man who reads only one book.

If you put forward arguments and justifications when you are annoyed, you give out more information to your opponent

Centuries of make-up that can be smudged by emotion have taught women to control their feelings.

She had discovered with surprise and pleasure that as she turned each page, the book was written, as if for the first time, all over again.

The pistol is not a weapon, it is an impertinence.

He did not want to think, but it was inevitable that he would.

He'd have given a rare incunabulum, in good condition, to punch the face of whoever was writing this ridiculus script.

What a lousy world, even Lucifer has to resort to the small print.

I imagine he's married. Or was ... He seems damaged in the way that only we women can damage men.

It was one of Diego Alatriste's virtues that he could make friends in Hell.

Because God and the devil could be one and the same thing, and everybody understood it in his own way.

Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it's for life.

What about the future?"
"We'll talk about the future when it gets here.

But one never knows how the dice will fall, and they are always cast before anyone even notices.

You don't choose your friends, they choose you, and you either reject them or you accept them without reservations.

It seemed to Don Jaime that you could find in the memory of every man the bittersweet shadow of a woman.

Now you've seen a hero," he said. "And that's worth something." - Eckermann, CONVERSATIONS WITH GOETHE

When it comes to politics and women, you have to taste all the sauces, but you must never let either one or the other give you indigestion.

And then it struck her that life was sometimes so beautiful that it didn't seem like life at all.

He was not the most honest or pious of men, but he was courageous

It's a beautiful thing to refuse to forget...

But he was calm, like a hunter who is sure that he will catch his prey in the end, however confusing the trial.

I once wrestled with an angel. He won, but I learned a few things.

An obscure flesh-and-blood Gascon, forgotten by History, transformed into a legendary giant by the novelist's genius

Who are you?"
"The devil," she said. "The devil in love.

Flowers just keep growing, detached and sure of themselves, she had once said,. We're the fragile ones.

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. And when I want to know something, I look it up in books
their memory never fails

You make a pact with life and death: so many years as a king, and then...Say what you will, dirty money spends as green as clean.