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The Club Dumas QUOTES

The Club Dumas QUOTES

1 " 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... "

― Arturo Pérez-Reverte , The Club Dumas

2 " In essence , games are the only universally serious activity . They leave no room for skepticism , wouldn't you agree ? However incredulous or doubting you might be , if you want to play , you have no choice but to follow the rules . Only the person who respects the rules , or at least knows and applies them , can win . Reading a book is the same : you have to accept the plot and the characters to enjoy the story . "

― Arturo Pérez-Reverte , The Club Dumas

3 " When he stepped into the shower, the hot water scalded him. He let it run over his face, burning his eyelids. He put up with the pain, his jaw clenched and his muscles taut, suppressing the urge to howl with loneliness in the suffocating steam. For four years, one month, and twelve days, Nikon always got into the shower with him after they made love and soaped his back slowly, interminably. And often she put her arms around him, like a little girl in the rain. One day I'll leave without ever really knowing you. You'll remember my big, dark eyes. The reproachful silences. The moans of anxiety as I slept. The nightmares you couldn't save me from. You'll remember all this when I'm gone. "

― Arturo Pérez-Reverte , The Club Dumas

4 " You can make a text mean anything, especially if it’s old and full of ambiguities. "

― Arturo Pérez-Reverte , The Club Dumas

5 " Then she leant over and kissed him very slowly, with infinite tenderness. As if she had had to wait an eternity to do so. "

― Arturo Pérez-Reverte , The Club Dumas

6 " That was the problem with modern day witches , thought Corso : they didn't have any secrets . Everything was out in the open , you could read all about them in any Who's Who or gossip column . Baronesses or not , they had become predictable , vulgar . Torquemada would have been bored to death by it all . "

― Arturo Pérez-Reverte , The Club Dumas

7 " Everyone gets the devil he deserves. "

― Arturo Pérez-Reverte , The Club Dumas

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

― Arturo Pérez-Reverte , The Club Dumas

9 " 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 "

― Arturo Pérez-Reverte , The Club Dumas

10 " Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it’s for life. "

― Arturo Pérez-Reverte , The Club Dumas

11 " Of all the universal lies she accepted unquestioningly, the happy ending was the most absurd. The hero and heroine lived happily ever after, and the ending seemed indisputable, definitive. No questions asked about how long love or happiness lasts in that 'forever' that can be divided into lifetimes, years, months. Even days "

― Arturo Pérez-Reverte , The Club Dumas

12 " 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? "

― Arturo Pérez-Reverte , The Club Dumas

13 " Films are for everyone, collective, generous, with children cheering when the cavalry arrives. And they're even better on TV: two can watch and comment. But your books are selfish. Solitary. Some of them can't even be read, they fall to bits if you open them. A person who's interested only in books doesn't need other people, and that frightens me "

― Arturo Pérez-Reverte , The Club Dumas

14 " 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. "

― Arturo Pérez-Reverte , The Club Dumas

15 " 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… "

― Arturo Pérez-Reverte , The Club Dumas

16 " 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. "

― Arturo Pérez-Reverte , The Club Dumas

17 " Amicizia..." Corso si guardò attorno, aspettando che qualcuno gli spiegasse la parola. "I bar e i cimiteri sono pieni di amici inseparabili. "

― Arturo Pérez-Reverte , The Club Dumas

18 " 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. "

― Arturo Pérez-Reverte , The Club Dumas

19 " A century from now,” he murmured as he lifted a page and examined it against the light, closing one eye, “almost all the contents of today’s libraries will have disappeared. But these books, printed two hundred or even five hundred years ago, will remain intact. We have the books, and the world, that we deserve. . . . Isn’t that so, Pablo?” “Lousy books printed on lousy paper. "

― Arturo Pérez-Reverte , The Club Dumas

20 " Quien sólo se interesa por los libros no necesita a nadie, y eso me da miedo. "

― Arturo Pérez-Reverte , The Club Dumas