Arturo Pérez-Reverte Quotes

• Nunca confíes en un hombre que sólo lee un libro.

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte

  Book, Men, Never Trust

  "Purity of blood". Book by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, 1997.

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• Later, with time, I learned that although all men are capable of good and evil, the worst among them are those who, when they commit evil, do so by shielding themselves in the authority of others, in their subordination, or in the excuse of following orders. And even worse are those who believe they are justified by their God.

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  Creer, Hombres, Orden

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• She loves you, loathes you, treats you well, then ill. Like a leech or a surgeon's knife, she's double-edged: sometimes she'll cure, but sometimes she will kill.

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  Love You, Knives, Leeches

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• Uno nunca está solo con un libro cerca, ¿no le parece? Cada página nos recuerda un día que ha pasado y nos hace revivir las emociones que lo llenaron. Las horas felices subrayadas con lápiz rojo, las oscuras con negro.

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  Book, Dark, Black

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• ...the problem with words is that once spoken, they cannot find their way back to the speaker alone.

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  Way, Problem, Speakers

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• Everyone gets the devil he deserves.

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  Devil, Deserve

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1996). “The Club Dumas”, Harcourt

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• Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten roads that no one travels anymore.

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  Loneliness, Grace, Fascination

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1999). “The Fencing Master”, Harcourt

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• Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it’s for life.

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  Book, Joining, Becoming

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1998). “The Club Dumas: A Novel”, Vintage

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• Centuries of make-up that can be smudged by emotion have taught women to control their feelings.

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  Feelings, Taught, Emotion

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1998). “The Club Dumas: A Novel”, Vintage

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• What about the future?" "We'll talk about the future when it gets here.

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  Arturo Pérez-Reverte (2002). “The Queen of the South”

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• Because God and the devil could be one and the same thing, and everybody understood it in his own way.

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  Devil, Way, Understood

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1996). “The Club Dumas”, Harcourt

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• I once wrestled with an angel. He won, but I learned a few things.

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  Ángel

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1998). “The Club Dumas: A Novel”, Vintage

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• he looked around at the books on the walls, at their dark, worn spines, and he seemed to hear a strange, distant murmur coming from them. each of the closed books was a door, and behind it stirred shadows, voices, sounds, heading toward him from a deep, dark place.

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  Wall, Book, Dark

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1996). “The Club Dumas”, Harcourt

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• The world is full of banks and rivers running between them, of men and women crossing bridges and fords, unaware of the consequences, not looking back or beneath their feet, and with no loose change for the boatman.

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  Running, Men, Bridges

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1998). “The Club Dumas: A Novel”, Vintage

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• You don't choose your friends, they choose you, and you either reject them or you accept them without reservations.

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  Accepting, Reservations, Rejects

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1994). “The Flanders Panel”, Harvill Press

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• El ajedrez consiste en poner en jaque al rey. Se trata de matar al padre. Yo diría que el ajedrez tiene más que ver con el arte del asesinato que con el arte de la guerra.

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  Art, Kings, Father

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1994). “The Flanders Panel”, Harvill Press

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• You’ve just mentioned the price that has to be paid…Pride, freedom…Knowledge. Whether at the beginning or at the end, you have to pay for everything. Even courage, don’t you think? And don’t you think a lot of courage is needed to fight God?

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  Fighting, Pride, Thinking

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1998). “The Club Dumas: A Novel”, Vintage

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• De todas las mentiras universales que aceptaba sin rechistar, el final feliz era la más absurda. El héroe y la heroína vivían felices para siempre, y el final parecía indiscutible, definitivo. No se planteaban preguntas sobre cuánto dura el amor o la felicidad en ese "para siempre" que puede dividirse en vidas, años, meses. Incluso días.

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  Lying, Hero, Years

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1996). “The Club Dumas”, Harcourt

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