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It's possible, and I stress possible, that such a moment may never come: you may not fall in love, you may not be able to or you may not wish to give ...more

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We all give up great expectations along the way.

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Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only fictions from a biography he'd never lived.

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Max had once read in one of his father's books that some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like scenes you can return to ...more

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Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station.

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Destiny is usually around the corner. Like a thief, like a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does ...more

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Don Ricardo wanted a successor worthy of himself. Jorge would always be cocooned in the privileges of his class, hiding from his mediocrity in creatur...more

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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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I believe that nothing happens by chance. Deep down, things have their secret plan, even though we don't understand it.

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as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive

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The dead never go to their own funeral.

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I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of th...more

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There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.

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I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing the pain I had caused her and returning to her wh...more

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He believed that life gives us all a few moments of happiness. For some they last hours or days, for a few lucky ones they last for years. The memorie...more