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  1. Arturo Pérez-Reverte _ The Fencing Master

    Heroes, however, have a habit of ending up dead or bankrupt, and, as you know better than anyone, I have much to lose. At my age and in my profession, prudence is more than just a virtue, it's an instinct.
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  2. Arturo Pérez-Reverte _ The Fencing Master

    For the minister, who was far from considering himself a radical on questions of ethics, not all scoundrels were equal; their degree of social acceptability stood in direct relation to each individual's fortune and distinction-especially if, in exchange for that minor moral violation on the minister's part, large material benefits were to be obtained.
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  3. Arturo Pérez-Reverte _ The Fencing Master

    ...Todas sus sensaciones alcanzaron una elevación hasta entonces ignorada para él. Vivió las experiencias de una vida infinitamente variada; murió y resucitó, amó hasta la pasión más ardiente y viose separado de nuevo y para siempre de su amada. Al fin, hacia el alba, cuando las primeras luces quebraban la penumbra, en su alma empezó a reinar una creciente paz, y las imágenes se tornaron más claras y permanentes.
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  4. Arturo Pérez-Reverte _ The Fencing Master

    I have only my sins to blame for the state I'm in today.
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  5. Arturo Pérez-Reverte _ The Fencing Master

    If you're hoping for salvation or whatever, it has very little merit in it. I was referring to the final battle on the threshold of eternal darkness, with oneself the only witness.
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  6. Arturo Pérez-Reverte _ The Fencing Master

    ¿Sabe cuál es el problema? Nos encontramos en la última de tres generaciones que la Historia tiene el capricho de repetir de cuando en cuando. La primera necesita un Dios, y lo inventa. La segunda levanta templos a ese Dios e intenta imitarlo. Y la tercera utiliza el mármol de esos templos para construir prostíbulos donde adorar su propia codicia, su lujuria y su bajeza. Y es así como a los dioses y los héroes los suceden siempre, inevitablemente, los mediocres, los cobardes y los imbéciles.
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  7. Arturo Pérez-Reverte _ The Fencing Master

    Love, Don Jaime, love," he went on after a moment of sad reflection. "That is the only thing that can make us happy and, paradoxically, it is also the thing that condemns us to our worst torments. To love is to be enslaved.
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  8. Arturo Pérez-Reverte _ The Fencing Master

    However, one certainty floated in the air: that night, at the end of a conversation that should have brought them closer, something had been broken between them, definitively and forever. He did not know what, but there was the unmistakable noise of pieces shattering to the ground about him. The young woman would never forgive him for his cowardice -- or for his resignation.
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  9. Arturo Pérez-Reverte _ The Fencing Master

    Sabe qual é o problema? Encontramo-nos na última de três gerações que a História tem o capricho de repetir de quando em quando. A primeira precisa de um Deus, e inventa-o. A segunda ergue templos a esse Deus e tenta imitá-lo. E a terceira utiliza o mármore desses templos para construir prostíbulos onde adorar a sua própria cobiça, a sua luxúria e a sua baixeza. E é assim que aos deuses e aos heróis sucedem sempre, inevitavelmente, os medíocres, os cobardes e os imbecis.
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  10. Arturo Pérez-Reverte _ The Fencing Master

    What happens is that Fate, which enjoys spicing things up with a dash of the unforeseen, determines that everything must have an end, and forces one of the combatants, sooner or later, to make a mistake. It is therefore merely a matter of keeping Fate at bay long enough for the other man to make a mistake first. Anything else is pure illusion.
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  11. Arturo Pérez-Reverte _ The Fencing Master

    We find ourselves in the last of the three generations history chooses to repeat every now and then. The first generation needs a god, and so they invent one. The second erects temples to that god and tries to imitate him. And the third uses the marble from those temples to build brothels in which to worship their own greed, lust, and dishonesty. And that is why gods and heroes are always, inevitably, succeeded by mediocrities, cowards, and imbeciles.
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  12. Arturo Pérez-Reverte _ The Fencing Master

    There are very subtle shades of violence, I can assure you. A civilization that renounces the possibility of resorting to violence in thought or deed destroys itself. It becomes a flock of sheep that will get their throats cut by the first person to come along. The same thing happens to men.
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