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Book: The Shadow Of The Wind
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón _ The Shadow Of The Wind
Sólo se quiere una vez en la vida, Julián, aunque uno no se dé cuenta.
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón _ The Shadow Of The Wind
but I felt sure that The Shadow of the Wind had been waiting there for me for years, probably since before I was born.
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón _ The Shadow Of The Wind
My father pretended to be reading his letters. He was a dreadful actor. 'Since when have you liked Wagner?
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón _ The Shadow Of The Wind
I'll see you tomorrow, then, around seven,' concluded Clara. 'Do you know the address?
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón _ The Shadow Of The Wind
That afternoon he invited me to his house for an after-school snack and showed me his collection of strange gadgets made from bits of scrap metal, which he kept in his room.
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón _ The Shadow Of The Wind
I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with my own life, like someone who has escaped into the pages of a novel because those whom he needs to love seem nothing more than ghosts inhabiting the mind of a stranger.
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón _ The Shadow Of The Wind
Not evil,' Fermín objected. 'Moronic, which isn't quite the same thing. Evil presupposes a moral decision, intention, and some forethought. A moron or a lout, however, doesn't stop to think or reason. He acts on instinct, like an animal, convinced that he's doing good, that he's always right, and sanctimoniously proud to go around fucking up, if you'll excuse the French, anyone he perceives to be different from himself, be it because of skin colour, creed, language, nationality or, as in the case of Don Federico, his leisure pursuits. What the world really needs are more thoroughly
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