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'A few minutes later the door was opened by a tall, thin man, seemingly escaped from an El Greco nightmare.'

'The rich wanted to become even richer. The powerful wanted more power. The mean wanted to feel like saints, and the pious wanted to be punished for sins they regretted not having had the courage to commit.'

'That's why a lot of people called her a sorceress, because she was able to see in them what they refused to see themselves.'

'The night, darker than ever, leaned in against the windowpanes.'

'I watched her out of the corner of my eye and realised that just by looking at her it was easier to believe there might be something good and decent left in this lousy world and, with luck, in myself.'

'Isabella came over and sat next to me, on the windowsill. We enjoyed the play of silences and shadows over the rooftops of the old town.'

Nunca un libro olvidado.

Lifting myself from this novel for the night is like pulling through a mire in dreamscape

"Bring me a story I have not read before and, if I have read it, bring it to me so well written and narrated that I won't even notice."