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"Some disappointments honor those who inspire them."
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"If you are going down with dignity, you will be admired as if you are going up!"
"I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect."
"There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity."
"Some disappointments honor those who inspire them."
"A penumbra of somber dignity has descended over his reputation."
"Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it together; then you leave an exit through which both the captor and the captive can walk with sincerity and dignity."
"A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it."
"You need to work even if it is a menial or dirty job, because every job is participating in the process of creation."
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"I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone."
"As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light that filtered through the cracks or from the glass lanterns embedded in the wooden structure, floating among mirrors and shadows."
"Do you think it's dirty money? All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it."
"Nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds."
"Max had once read in one of his father's books that some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like scenes you can return to again and again and will always remember, no matter how much time goes by."
"The city was asleep, and the bookshop felt like a boat adrift in a sea of silence and shadows."
"Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens."
"As I walked in the dark through the tunnels and tunnels of books, I could not help being overcome by a sense of sadness. I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever. I felt myself surrounded by millions of abandoned pages, by worlds and souls without an owner sinking in an ocean of darkness, while the world that throbbed outside the library seemed to be losing its memory, day after day, unknowingly, feeling all the wiser the more it forgot."
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