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Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

— Feb 27, 2026 05:50AM

The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)

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God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.

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Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.

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Samantha is on page 405 of 487

They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.

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Samantha is on page 196 of 487

There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.

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Samantha is on page 167 of 487

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

— Feb 27, 2026 05:49AM

Samantha is on page 159 of 487

To my dismay, the day was turning out to be longer than The Brothers Karamazov.

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Samantha is on page 107 of 487

Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.

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Samantha is on page 68 of 487

Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.

— Feb 27, 2026 05:46AM

Samantha is on page 22 of 487

Never trust anyone, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.

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Samantha is on page 21 of 487

(He) believed that nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds.

— Feb 27, 2026 05:44AM