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"The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever."
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"Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen."
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"In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend."
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"Man...heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand...heats up like an iron. Slowly, over a low heat, like tasty stew. But then, once she has heated up, there's no stopping her."
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"As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections."
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