Sebastian Rotella

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Triple Crossing (Valentine ...

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Remember

My City of Ruins
Bruce Springsteen


There’s a blood red circle on the cold dark ground
And the rain is falling down
The church door’s thrown open, I can hear the organ’s song
But the congregation’s gone
My city of ruins
My city of ruins

Now the sweet bells of mercy drift through the evening trees
Young men on the corner like scattered leaves
The boarded up windows, the empty streets
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“Cusan was a committed writer: as a result, he fell into profound consternation at finding himself embroiled in those secrets, those dangers. But he was an honest man, a loyal friend: and after having tried with every angle and every weak point to topple that castle of impressions, of deductions, of theories, he accepted that he had entered it alongside Rogas: as in a labyrinth, they had to find a thread to lead them out. And there was a thread at hand: and it was to escape by forgetting. In their thoughts, they brushed it several times, both of them were on the verge of clutching it. The pleasures of the place, the food, the wine; the good and dear paternal and maternal images repeating, “Who’s forcing you to do it?’’, that two millenniums of the nation’s history made prophetic and fateful; the memories of carefree youth that returned whenever they met; the yearning for things yet to be understood, places yet to explore, books yet to be read, in the prospective maturity and serenity t ...more Leonardo Sciascia
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Il contesto. Una parodia by Leonardo Sciascia
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Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
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El pasado anda atrás de nosotros by Juan Pablo Villalobos
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Cuando el crimen reza by Pablo Zeballos
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El Tren de Aragua by Ronna Rísquez
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“No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
Theodore Roosevelt
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Morir en la arena by Leonardo Padura
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Red Dawn Over China by Frank Dikötter
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“That's what happens. Governments fuck you around. People fuck you around. By the time they're done, you don't know who you are. Especially if you weren't sure to begin with.”
Sebastian Rotella

“We all have had inconvenient friends.”
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“In conversation, he came off as if he was enjoying a private joke at your expense. When he sang, though, he sounded as if he believed every word with all his heart. And it became hard to dislike him.”
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“Tell the story of your village. If you tell it well, you will have told the story of the world.”
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“Dans ce vaste pays qu’il avait tant aimé, il était seul.”
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“He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food cake.”
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