Quotes About Reverte

#1. You can do everything right, strictly according to procedure, on the ocean, and it'll still kill you, but if you're a good navigator, at least you'll know where you were when you died.
(In "The Nautical Chart" by Arturo Perez-Reverte)

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#2. The pistol is not a weapon, it is an impertinence.

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#3. One is never alone with a book nearby, don't you agree? Every page reminds us of a day that has passed and makes us relive the emotions that filled it. Happy hours underlined in red pencil, dark ones in black ...

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

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#5. It seemed to Don Jaime that you could find in the memory of every man the bittersweet shadow of a woman.

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#6. You can make a text mean anything, especially if it's old and full of ambiguities.

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#7. But he was calm, like a hunter who is sure that he will catch his prey in the end, however confusing the trial.

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#8. A reader is the total of all he's read, in addition to all the films and television he's seen.

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

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#10. I imagine he's married. Or was ... He seems damaged in the way that only we women can damage men.

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#11. An obscure flesh-and-blood Gascon, forgotten by History, transformed into a legendary giant by the novelist's genius

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#12. found out later that he lived alone, surrounded by books, both his own and other people's, and that as well as being a hired hunter of books he was an expert on Napoleon's battles. He could set out on a board, from memory, the exact positions of troops on the eve of Waterloo. A

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

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#14. As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. And when I want to know something, I look it up in books
their memory never fails

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#15. [L]ife is like an expensive restaurant where, sooner or later, someone always hands you the bill, which is not to say that you should deny the joy and pleasure afforded by the dishes already eaten.

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#16. Despite my youth I already suspected that it did no harm to keep my ears open. Just the opposite. In life, danger lies not in not knowing, but in revealing that you do: It is always good to have a sense of the music before the dance begins.

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#17. No fear is unbearable, she concluded, unless you've got time on your hands and a healthy imagination.

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#18. Always that damned discipline that you wear like chain mail ... You would have got on well with Bernard de Clairvaux and his gang of Knights Templar. If you'd been captured by Saladin, I'm sure you'd rather have had your throat cut than renounce your faith. But not from devotion, from pride.

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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. He'd have given a rare incunabulum, in good condition, to punch the face of whoever was writing this ridiculus script.

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#22. The miser is counting his gold pieces, unaware of Death, who holds two clear symbols: an hourglass and a pitchfork."
"Why a pitchfork and not a scythe?"
"Because Death reaps but the Devil harvests

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#23. And then it struck her that life was sometimes so beautiful that it didn't seem like life at all.

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#24. It was one of Diego Alatriste's virtues that he could make friends in Hell.

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#25. But one never knows how the dice will fall, and they are always cast before anyone even notices.

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#26. A woman is never just a woman dear Max. She is first and foremost the men she once had, those she has, and those she might have. Without them, she remains a mystery... and whoever discovers that information possesses the combination to the safe. The access to her secrets.

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

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#28. Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it's for life.

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#29. You make a pact with life and death: so many years as a king, and then...Say what you will, dirty money spends as green as clean.

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#30. She had discovered with surprise and pleasure that as she turned each page, the book was written, as if for the first time, all over again.

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#31. He was not the most honest or pious of men, but he was courageous

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#32. Paco Montegrifo was the sort of man who decides, as soon as he's old enough to make such decisions, that black socks are strictly for chauffeurs and waiters and opts instead for socks of only the darkest navy blue.

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#33. Who are you?"
"The devil," she said. "The devil in love.

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#34. It's a beautiful thing to refuse to forget...

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#35. It really doesn't bother me," she said. "I've always thought it stupid to try to hide your age, or to pretend to be younger than you are. Denying your age is like denying your life.

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#36. 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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#37. Flowers just keep growing, detached and sure of themselves, she had once said,. We're the fragile ones.

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

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#39. If you put forward arguments and justifications when you are annoyed, you give out more information to your opponent

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#40. Whenever I got any money, I invested it in books. When my savings dwindled, I got rid of everything else - pictures, furniture, china. I think you understand what it is to be a passionate collector of books ...

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#41. The men buckled on their weapons and started outside amid high expectations, taking care not to leave their backs unguarded
just in case
for Jesus may have said something about brothers, but he made no mention of cousins.

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#42. When it comes to politics and women, you have to taste all the sauces, but you must never let either one or the other give you indigestion.

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#43. 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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#44. What a lousy world, even Lucifer has to resort to the small print.

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#45. Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.

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#46. Never trust a man who reads only one book.

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#47. Don Jaime relied on this to conserve what he defined as serenity: peace of mind and soul, the only fragment of wisdom to which human imperfection could aspire. His whole life lay before him, smooth, broad, and definitive, as untroubled by uncertainty as a river flowing to the sea.

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

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#49. Everyone gets the devil he deserves.

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#50. I ask myself how other people see me, and I hope they see me from way far away.

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#51. He did not want to think, but it was inevitable that he would.

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#52. I'm afraid of wooden horses, cheap gin, and pretty girls. Especially when they give me presents. And when they go by the name of the woman who defeated Sherlock Holmes.

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#53. You're forgetting about God.
He doesn't interest me. God tolerates the intolerable, he is irresponsible and inconsistent. He is not a gentleman.

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#54. Sometimes," he said at last, as if it were an enormous effort to formulate his thoughts, "I wonder if chess is something man invented or if he merely discovered it. It's as if it were something that has always been there, since the beginning of the universe. Like whole numbers.

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#55. 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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#56. Now you've seen a hero," he said. "And that's worth something." - Eckermann, CONVERSATIONS WITH GOETHE

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#57. As for myself, I would just say that, because of what I am, I can at least look myself in the face when I stand before the mirror each morning to shave. And that, madam, is more than many men I know can do.

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