The Shadow of the Wind Quotes

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I believe that nothing happens by chance. Deep down, things have their secret plan, even though we don't understand it.

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The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.

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One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.

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The city was asleep, and the bookshop felt like a boat adrift in a sea of silence and shadows.

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Right then, in a nutshell: this one hasn't a single bone of obedient-little-wife material in her heavenly body.' 'Hasn't she? Then what kind of bone does your expertise detect?' Fermin came closer, adopting a confidential tone. 'The passionate kind,'...

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You talk as if Bea were a trophy.' 'No, as if she were a blessing,' Fermin corrected.

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Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

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Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.

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He let the hours go by lost in the magic of words, shedding his skin and his name, feeling like another person. He allowed himself to be carried away by the dreams of shadowy characters, the only refuge left for him.

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He would have liked to know that somebody wanted to keep him alive, that someone remembered him. He used to say that we exist as long as somebody remembers us.

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—Alguien dijo una vez que en el momento en que te paras a pensar si quieres a alguien, ya has dejado de quererle para siempre —dije.

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Recorrí pasillos y galerías en espiral pobladas por cientos, miles de tomos que parecían saber más acerca de mí que yo de ellos. Al poco, me asaltó la idea de que tras la cubierta de cada uno de aquellos libros se abría un universo infinito po...

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Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.

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Se enfrenta usted al enigma de la naturaleza, Daniel. La fémina, babel y laberinto. Si la deja usted pensar, está perdido. Recuerde: corazón caliente, mente fría. El código del seductor.

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Making money isn't hard in itself,what's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting your life to

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To truly hate is an art one learns with time.

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But I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned with hatred.

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Ustedes, las mujeres, escuchan más al corazón y menos a la tontería —concluyó el sombrerero con tristeza—. Por eso viven más.

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