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All Men Are Liars QUOTES

All Men Are Liars QUOTES

1 " The thing is, I don’t know if these stories he was telling were mine, or his, or someone else’s. You spend your life among words, listening, making sense out of what you say and out of what you imagine other people are saying to you, believing that something in particular happened like this or that, as a result of this or that, with these or those consequences. But it is never so simple, is it? I suppose that if we read about ourselves in a book, we wouldn't recognize ourselves, we wouldn't realize that those people doing certain things and behaving in a particular manner are us. I always believed that I knew Alejandro, that I knew him intimately, I mean, the way you might know a doll you've once taken to pieces. But it wasn't true. "

― Alberto Manguel , All Men Are Liars

2 " You don't immediately understand something like that, even when it's explained to you clearly. You don't understand it, because you don't know how to understand it. You lack that space in your mind that would let you take it in. You are incapable of believing in the possibility of what they are telling you, because nothing of the sort has ever happened to you before. "

― Alberto Manguel , All Men Are Liars

3 " Ljubav je imbecilna izvesnost pomoću koje naša fantazija stvara verodostojnu utvaru. "

― Alberto Manguel , All Men Are Liars