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  1. Javier Cercas _ Soldados de Salamina

    -Como una película de los hermanos Marx, sólo que con muertos. Aquello fue un desbarajuste fabuloso. -Sopló un poco el té, bebió un sorbo y volvió a dejar la taza sobre el plato-. Mira, te voy a decir la verdad. Durante años me cagué cada vez que pude en Allende, pensaba que la culpa de todo era suya, por no entregarnos las armas. Ahora me cago en mí por haber dicho eso de Allende. Joder, el cabrón pensaba en nosotros como si fuéramos sus hijos, ¿entiendes? No quería que nos mataran.
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  2. Javier Cercas _ Soldados de Salamina

    los hombres no piden perdón: hacen lo que hacen y dicen lo que dicen, y luego se aguantan.
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  3. Javier Cercas _ Soldados de Salamina

    los libros siempre acaban cobrando vida propia, y porque uno no escribe acerca de lo que quiere, sino de lo que puede;
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  4. Javier Cercas _ Soldados de Salamina

    Dos-a-Dos González,
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  5. Javier Cercas _ Soldados de Salamina

    comportamiento de un héroe hay casi siempre algo ciego, irracional, instintivo, algo que está en su naturaleza y a lo que no puede escapar. Además, se puede ser una persona decente durante toda una vida, pero no se puede ser sublime sin interrupción, y por eso el héroe sólo lo es excepcionalmente, en un momento o, a lo sumo, en una temporada de locura o inspiración.
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  6. Javier Cercas _ Soldados de Salamina

    ayrıca gerçek bir yazar asla yazarlığı bırakmaz,yazmasa da bırakmaz.
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  7. Javier Cercas _ Soldados de Salamina

    I was about to tell her that Miralles hadn't fought in one war, but many, but I couldn't, because I suddenly saw Miralles walkingacross the Libyan desert towards the Murzuk oasis- young, ragged, dusty and annonymous, carrying the tricolour flag of a country not his own, of a country that is all countries and also the country of liberty and which only exists because he and four Moors and a black guy are raising that flag as they keep walking onwards, onwards, ever onwards.
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  8. Javier Cercas _ Soldados de Salamina

    Naturally, I asked him what it'd been like to live through Pinochet's coup and the fall of Allende. Naturally, he regarded me with an expression of utter boredom; then he said:'Like a Marx Brothers' movie, but with corpses. Unimaginable pandemonium.
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  9. Javier Cercas _ Soldados de Salamina

    Nobody remembers them, you know ? Nobody. Nobody remebers why they died, why they didnt have a wife and childrenand a sun lit room either, nobody, least of all people for whom they fought. There is no and there never will be some pathetic streetin one pathetic village of a shitty country that is named after any of them." Miralles stopped talking, he took out his handkerchief, wiped the tears, blew his nose, he did so without shame, as if he was not ashamed of crying in public,as Homers warriors of old did it, as any soldier of Salamis would do.
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  10. Javier Cercas _ Soldados de Salamina

    If there's one thing I hate the Communists for, Your Excellency,' Foxa once said to Franco, 'it's for obliging me to join the Falange.
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  11. Javier Cercas _ Soldados de Salamina

    I think it was probably both the coincidence and the beer that made Miralles say at some point that we were going to end up the same, defeated and alone and punch-drunk in a dead-end city, pissing blood before going into the ring to fight to the death against our own shadows in an empty stadium.
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  12. Javier Cercas _ Soldados de Salamina

    Of course, if you ask, nobody was there when they torched the churches.
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