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Romain Puértolas QUOTES

Romain Puértolas QUOTES

1 " Para alguém de um país ocidental com tendência democrática, o senhor Ikea desenvolvera um conceito comercial no mínimo insólito: a visita forçada ao seu estabelecimento.
Assim, se quisesse aceder à zona de self-service situada no rés do chão, o cliente era obrigado a subir ao primeiro andar, percorrer um gigantesco e interminável corredor que serpenteava entre quartos, salas e cozinhas em exposição, cada espaço mais bonito do que o anterior, passar por um restaurante aliciante, comer umas almôndegas ou wraps de salmão e só depois descer à secção de vendas para finalmente efetuar as suas compras. Em suma, uma pessoa que quisesse comprar três parafusos e duas cavilhas saía quatro horas depois com uma cozinha equipada e uma boa indigestão.
Os suecos, pessoas muito previdentes, tinham inclusive desenhado uma linha amarela no chão para indicar o caminho a seguir, não fosse dar-se o caso de um visitante ter a má ideia de se desviar do rumo certo. "

― Romain Puértolas , L'Extraordinaire Voyage du fakir qui était resté coincé dans une armoire Ikea

2 " Le plus important est ce en quoi vous croyez. Que ce soit la vérité ou pas. La croyance est parfois plus forte que la réalité. Et puis il faut prendre la vie telle qu'elle est. [...] "

― Romain Puértolas , La petite fille qui avait avalé un nuage grand comme la tour Eiffel

3 " Parce que la vie, c'était un peu comme la mayonnaise. Faite de choses simples, comme des jaunes d'oeuf et de l'huile, et qu'il ne fallait surtout pas brusquer mais qu'un effort régulier transformait en le plus savoureux des mélanges. "

― Romain Puértolas , La petite fille qui avait avalé un nuage grand comme la tour Eiffel

4 " Il voyait déjà le best-seller sur les étagères des plus grosses librairies, traduit en trente-deux langues, dont l'ayapaneco, ancien dialecte mexicain qui n'était plus parlé que par deux personnes au monde, qui ne savaient pas lire. "

― Romain Puértolas , L'Extraordinaire Voyage du fakir qui était resté coincé dans une armoire Ikea

5 " why are some people born here and others there? why do some have everything and others nothing? why do some live while others- always the same ones- have the right only to shut up and die? "

― Romain Puértolas

6 " Uno experimenta un sentimiento de superioridad cuando hace un truco de magia. Sólo porque es el único en conocer el secreto. Y porque suscita la admiración. Ese sentimiento se convierte pronto en una droga. "

― Romain Puértolas , L'Extraordinaire Voyage du fakir qui était resté coincé dans une armoire Ikea

7 " But away from home, even the sturdiest men become vulnerable: beaten animals with lifeless expressions, their eyes full of extinguished stars. Far from their houses, they all become frightened children, and the only thing that could console them was the success of their venture. "

― Romain Puértolas , L'Extraordinaire Voyage du fakir qui était resté coincé dans une armoire Ikea

8 " Dhjamal Mekhan Dooyeghas nunca había visto tantas sillas, pinzas para espaguetis y lámparas en toda su vida. Allí, al alcance de su mano, una profusión de objetos de todo tipo se apilaban delante de sus ojos asombrados. La mayoría no sabía para qué servían, pero eso no le importaba demasiado. Era la cantidad lo que le impresionaba. Una verdadera cueva de Alí Babá. Había cosas por todos lados. Si su primo hubiera estado allí con él, Dhjamal le hubiera dicho: «¡Mira eso! ¡Y esto otro! ¡Y eso de allí!», "

― Romain Puértolas , L'Extraordinaire Voyage du fakir qui était resté coincé dans une armoire Ikea

9 " Una pareja se acostó púdicamente sobre una Birkeland, imaginándose ya las deliciosas noches que iban a pasar en ella. Quizá hasta harían un niño. Un cartel escrito en francés y en inglés indicaba, efectivamente, que uno de cada diez bebés había sido concebido en una cama Ikea. "

― Romain Puértolas , L'Extraordinaire Voyage du fakir qui était resté coincé dans une armoire Ikea

10 " Le pendule de Foucault, qui se trouve au Panthéon à Paris, est le seul et unique indicateur du point fixe de l'univers. J'entends souvent papa le dire quand il parle de maman. C'est joli. Il dit qu'elle est son seul point fixe dans l'univers. Moi, je le dis lorsque je veux faire passer l'idée qu'il n y a rien de permanent ou d'inchangé dans notre monde. "

― Romain Puértolas , Un détective très très très spécial (Encrage)

11 " Because intelligent people are easier to fool. They are sure of themselves, so they don't pay attention. They think nobody can make a fool of them. And, just like that, you've got 'em! Their self-confidence is their undoing. It's different with the idiots. They're used to people thinking they're stupid, so as soon as they come across a smooth talker, they're immediately on their guard. They analyse all your movements. They never let you out of their sight. They don't let anything go. And so, paradoxically, it is much harder to confuse them. (E.J. Robert-Houdin) "

― Romain Puértolas

12 " The pride he felt at having put his ideas into words was the third electric shock that the fakir received to his heart during this adventure. "

― Romain Puértolas , L'Extraordinaire Voyage du fakir qui était resté coincé dans une armoire Ikea

13 " This was the fourth electric shock that the fakir received to his heart during this adventure. He had been helped again. But when would he be able to help someone else? "

― Romain Puértolas , L'Extraordinaire Voyage du fakir qui était resté coincé dans une armoire Ikea

14 " For the first time in his life, someone was trusting him, just like that, without him having to come up with a cheap trick or clever ploy, but simply by him telling the truth. "

― Romain Puértolas , L'Extraordinaire Voyage du fakir qui était resté coincé dans une armoire Ikea

15 " And he had to make the most of this euphoric mood because, very soon, he would probably be moping about in his bed, alone, prey to the most intense form of depression—that felt by exiles, people torn from their roots, homebodies who find themselves miles from the places they know and love, who are so homesick they can feel it in their veins, as if they are floating down a river without a single branch to hold on to. "

― Romain Puértolas , L'Extraordinaire Voyage du fakir qui était resté coincé dans une armoire Ikea

16 " For the first time in his life, the Indian removed the piercings from his ears and his fleshy lips and shaved his mustache, taking as much care as if this were his last day on Earth. This was, in fact, the final act in his metamorphosis and disappearance. The fakir had evaporated forever in the steamy bathroom, and a writer had been born. "

― Romain Puértolas , L'Extraordinaire Voyage du fakir qui était resté coincé dans une armoire Ikea

17 " It was easily the best levitation he had ever performed. And it was also the fifth electric shock he received to his heart during this adventure. "

― Romain Puértolas , L'Extraordinaire Voyage du fakir qui était resté coincé dans une armoire Ikea

18 " But he’d done it. He had helped someone. His first human. And it had been disconcertingly easy. Having achieved this, Ajatashatru was overcome by a feeling of well-being, as if a radiant little vapor cloud had appeared inside his chest, and was spreading throughout his body, to the end of each limb. "

― Romain Puértolas , L'Extraordinaire Voyage du fakir qui était resté coincé dans une armoire Ikea

19 " at the mercy of international readmission agreements. He had been sent flying from country to country as if he were a grenade with the pin removed. First Algeria, then Tunisia, and finally Libya. Which was a little odd, as he had not been through any of these countries on his original journey. But whatever … All that mattered to the authorities was to pass this problem on to someone else as quickly as possible. You might even say that they had succeeded in inventing their gigantic immigrant catapult. "

― Romain Puértolas , L'Extraordinaire Voyage du fakir qui était resté coincé dans une armoire Ikea

20 " I don’t know who is the worst off, Assefa, but I’m pretty sure most white people are not in the same boat. "

― Romain Puértolas , L'Extraordinaire Voyage du fakir qui était resté coincé dans une armoire Ikea