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  1. Arturo Pérez-Reverte _ The Flanders Panel

    It's odd how, against all logic, one clings to life in inverse proportion to the quantity of life one has left to look forward to.
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  2. Arturo Pérez-Reverte _ The Flanders Panel

    There are exactly the same things in a room at night as there are in the daytime; it's just that you can't see them.
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  3. Arturo Pérez-Reverte _ The Flanders Panel

    Besides, life is a succession of events that link up with each other whether one wants them to or not.
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  4. Arturo Pérez-Reverte _ The Flanders Panel

    And only when he'd finished and fallen silent did the vague smile return to his lips, in apparent gentle mockery of himself, of the man he had just described and for whom, deep down, he felt neither compassion nor disdain, only a kind of disillusioned, sympathetic solidarity."
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  5. Arturo Pérez-Reverte _ The Flanders Panel

    I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.
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  6. Arturo Pérez-Reverte _ The Flanders Panel

    Y supo de mujeres capaces de desmontar con minuciosidad de relojero los resortes que mueven a un hombre.
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  7. Arturo Pérez-Reverte _ The Flanders Panel

    He feels his soul slowly dissolving in a bitter lament for itself, whilst he searches desperately in his memory for a God to whom to offer up his repentance. And he discovers with surprise that he repents of nothing, although it is not clear either, as night closes in, that there is any God prepared to hear him.
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  8. Arturo Pérez-Reverte _ The Flanders Panel

    At some point in his life, César had realised that no one ever learns from anyone else's mistakes and, consequently, there was only one dignified and proper attitude to be taken by a guardian - which, after all, was what he was - and that consisted in sitting down next to his young ward, taking her by the hand and listening, with infinite kindness, to the evolving story of her loves and griefs, whilst nature took its own wise and inevitable course.
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  9. Arturo Pérez-Reverte _ The Flanders Panel

    It's usually the father who teaches the child his first moves in the game. And the dream of any son who plays chess is to beat his father. To kill the king. Besides, it soon becomes evident in chess that the father, or the king, is the weakest piece on the board. He's under continual act, in constant need of protection, of such tactics as castling, and he can only move one square at a time. Paradoxically, the king is also indispensable. The king gives the game its name, since the word 'chess' derives from the Persian word shah meaning king, and is pretty much the same in most languages.
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  10. Arturo Pérez-Reverte _ The Flanders Panel

    life is like an expensive restaurant where, sooner or later, someone always hands you the bill, which is not to say that you should deny the joy and pleasure afforded by the dishes already eaten.
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  11. Arturo Pérez-Reverte _ The Flanders Panel

    In affairs of the heart, Princess," César used to say, "one should offer neither advice nor solutions ... just a clean hanky when it seems appropriate.
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  12. Arturo Pérez-Reverte _ The Flanders Panel

    Sometimes," he said at last, as if it were an enormous effort to formulate his thoughts, "I wonder if chess is something man invented or if he merely discovered it. It's as if it were something that has always been there, since the beginning of the universe. Like whole numbers.
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