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1 " The night I met him [he] told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looking for. He was given wealth, fame, and power, yet his soul yearned only for spiritual peace so that he could silence the shadows in his heart... "
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , Marina
2 " Man's meanness is a fuse in search of a flame. "
3 " Youth is like a fickle girlfriend. We can't understand or value her until she goes off with someone else, never to return. "
4 " The road to hell is paved with good intentions. "
5 " If you don’t know where you’re going, you won’t get anywhere, "
6 " He held an unlit cigar in his mouth and had more hair in each eyebrow than most people have on their entire head. "
7 " Funny people, the Swiss,” he said. “While the rest of us hide our sins, they stuff theirs with liqueur, wrap them in silver paper, add a ribbon, and sell them at the price of gold. The prefect has just sent me a huge box of chocolates from Zurich, "
8 " A good friend once told me that problems are like cockroaches,” he said in the joking tone he used when he wanted to say something serious. “If you bring them out into the light, they get scared and leave. "
9 " El territorio de los seres humanos es la vida. La muerte no nos pertenece. "
10 " Sometimes, the things that are the most real only happen in one's imagination, Oscar, she said. We only remember what never really happened. "
11 " The night I met him Mijail told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looking for. "
12 " We only remember what never happened. "
13 " People only disappear when they have somewhere to go. "
14 " We are doomed to remember what never really happened. "
15 " Marina mi-a zis odată că nu ne aducem aminte decat ceea ce nicicând nu s-a petrecut. "
16 " Time does to the body what stupidity does to the soul, "
17 " Avevo sempre pensato che le stazioni ferroviarie fossero tra i pochi lughi magici rimasti al mondo. I fantasmi dei ricordi e degli addii vi si mescolavano con l'inizio di centinaia di viaggi per destinazioni lontane, senza ritorno. "
18 " Our body begins to destroy itself from the moment it is born. We are fragile. We’re creatures of passage. All that is left of us are our actions, the good or the evil we do to our fellow humans. "
19 " Sólo recordamos lo que nunca sucedió "
20 " Todos temos um segredo trancado a sete chaves no sótão da alma. "