Luis Sepúlveda · 144 pages
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“It was the purest love without purpose other than love itself. Without tenure or jealousy.”
― Luis Sepúlveda, quote from The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
“He often heard that wisdom comes with age, and he waited, trusting that this wisdom would bring him what he most wanted; that ability to guide his memories and not fall into the traps that they often set for him.”
― Luis Sepúlveda, quote from The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
“Fue el descubrimiento más importante de toda su vida. Sabía leer. Era poseedor del antídoto contra el ponzoñoso veneno de la vejez. Sabía leer.”
― Luis Sepúlveda, quote from The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
“Никто не в силах захватить и присвоить себе раскат грома. Никто не может отобрать небеса у другого человека. Никто не может забрать небо с собой при расставании.”
― Luis Sepúlveda, quote from The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
“Antonia José Bolivar préférait ne plus penser, laissant béantes les profondeurs de sa mémoire pour les remplir de bonheur et de tourments d'amour plus éternels que le temps.”
― Luis Sepúlveda, quote from The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
“Antonio José Bolívar se ocupaba de mantenerlos a raya, en tanto los colonos destrozaban la selva construyendo la obra maestra del hombre civilizando: el desierto.”
― Luis Sepúlveda, quote from The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
“Если у человека нет определенной цели, он так и будет ходить по кругу, раз за разом возвращаясь на одно и то же место.”
― Luis Sepúlveda, quote from The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
“Không ai trói buộc được tiếng sét và không ai lấy được cho riêng mình cái sung sướng vô ngần của người khác vào khoảnh khắc được tự do.”
― Luis Sepúlveda, quote from The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
“Антонио Хосе Боливар неторопливо вынул изо рта вставную челюсть, завернул ее в носовой платок и, не переставая проклинать гринго, ставшего виновником трагедии, алькальда, золотоискателей – всех тех, кто своим присутствием оскверняет девственную чистоту так любимой им амазонской сельвы, – ударом мачете срубил толстую ветку и, опираясь на нее, зашагал по направлению к Эль-Идилио, к своей хижине, к своим книгам, в которых говорится о любви – говорится словами столь прекрасными, что они порой заставляют забыть о варварской натуре человека.”
― Luis Sepúlveda, quote from The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
“Về căn nhà của mình, về với những cuốn tiểu thuyết. Những cuốn tiểu thuyết nói về tình yêu với những từ ngữ tuyệt đẹp, để đôi khi có thể quên đi sự dã man của con người...”
― Luis Sepúlveda, quote from The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
“Antonio José Bolivar ôta son dentier, le rangea dans son mouchoir et sans cesser de maudire le gringo, responsable de la tragédie, le maire, les chercheurs d'or, tous ceux qui souillaient la virginité de son Amazonie, il coupa une grosse branche d'un coup de machette, s'y appuya, et prit la direction d'El Idilio, de sa cabane et ses romans qui parlaient d'amour avec des mots si beaux que, parfois, ils lui faisaient oublier la barbarie des hommes.”
― Luis Sepúlveda, quote from The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
“El otro se alejó para no estorbar, mas era tal la atención que el viejo dispensaba al libro, que no soportó quedar al margen.
—¿De qué trata?
—Del amor.
Ante la respuesta del viejo, el otro se acercó con renovado interés.
—No jodas. ¿Con hembras ricas, calentonas?
El viejo cerró de sopetón el libro haciendo vacilar la llama de la lámpara.
—No. Se trata del otro amor. Del que duele.”
― Luis Sepúlveda, quote from The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
“Như người Shuar vẫn nói: Ban ngày là người và rừng. Ban đêm, người là rừng. ”
― Luis Sepúlveda, quote from The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
“Правителствата живеят от огризките, които се изхитрят да оглозкат от поданиците.”
― Luis Sepúlveda, quote from The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
“Бедняки готовы великодушно простить человеку все – все, кроме неудачи в попытке вырваться из нищеты.”
― Luis Sepúlveda, quote from The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
“Muchas veces escuchó decir que con los años llega la sabiduría, y él esperó, confiando en que tal sabiduría le entragara lo que más deseaba: ser capaz de guiar el rumbo de los recuerdos y no caer en las trampas de éstos tendían a menudo.”
― Luis Sepúlveda, quote from The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
“[...] en tanto los colonos destrozaban la selva construyendo la obra maestra del hombre civilizado: el desierto.”
― Luis Sepúlveda, quote from The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
“Una femmina impazzita di dolore è più pericolosa di venti assassini messi insieme.”
― Luis Sepúlveda, quote from The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
Luis Sepúlveda
Born place: in Ovalle, Chile
Born date October 4, 1949
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“Stunned, I sat down on the bed, reading the message over and over again, convinced I had misunderstood it in some way. I couldn’t believe that Jack would have written something so cruel or been so cutting. He had never spoken to me in such a way before, he had never even raised his voice to me. I felt as if I’d been slapped in the face. Surely I deserved some explanation and, at the very least, an apology? I needed to talk to someone, badly, so it was sobering to realise there was no one I could call. My parents and I didn’t have the sort of relationship that would allow me to sob down the phone that he had left me by myself and for some reason I felt too ashamed to tell any of my friends. Where had the perfect gentleman I’d thought him to be gone? Had it all been a facade, had he covered his true self with a cloak of geniality and good humour to impress me?”
― B.A. Paris, quote from Behind Closed Doors
“And Throgmorten’s arched ginger body came flying out of the creepers like a furry orange boomerang and landed slap in the basket. Christopher was deeply impressed – so impressed that he was a bit slow getting the lid down. Throgmorten came pouring over the edge of the basket again in an instant ginger stream. The Goddess seized him and crammed him back, whereupon a large number of flailing ginger legs – at least seven, to Christopher’s bemused eyes – clawed hold of her bracelets and her robe and her legs under the robe, and tore pieces off them.
Christopher waited and aimed for an instant when one of Throgmorten’s heads – he seemed to have at least three, each with more fangs than seemed possible – came into range. Then he banged the basket lid on it, hard. Throgmorten, for the blink of an eye, became an ordinary dazed cat instead of a fighting devil.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, quote from The Lives of Christopher Chant
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― Peter Jenkins, quote from A Walk Across America
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