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‘ Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it’s an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.’

‘Those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.’

‘Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you.’

‘As I was saying, love is like pork, there’s loin steak and there is bologna. Each has its own place and function.’

‘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.’

‘Our work 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.’

‘Presents are made for the pleasure of the one who gives them, not for the merits of those who receive them.’

‘This is a world of shadows, Daniel, and magic is a rare asset.’