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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears ro...  
A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.  
Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and ...  
But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a ha...   Life
Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule t...  
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless e...  
I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays ...  
Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.  
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh ...  
The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of i...  
The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs ...  
The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Im...  
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an hones...  
Translation is the art of failure.