Author of quotes: Arturo Pérez-Reverte



Books, like a mirror, reflect the image and life path of those whose writings fill their pages. Anxieties, desires, life and death are reflected. This is living matter - you need to be able to provide them with nutrition and protection.
№ 459032   Added MegaMozg 07-12-2023 / 11:30
Even in books of the same edition there are discrepancies... In truth, it is simply impossible to find two completely identical copies, because already at the moment of birth some small differences arise. Then each volume begins to live its own life; pages disappear, are added, replaced, bindings are made... Years pass, and two books printed by the same press are no longer very similar to each other.
№ 459031   Added Viker 07-12-2023 / 11:30
A hundred years will pass,” he muttered, squinting his eye and looking at one of the pages in the light, “and almost everything that we see in bookstores today will disappear. But these volumes, printed two hundred or even five hundred years ago, will remain safe and sound... After all, today we have the same books as our world itself, which we deserve... Right, Pablo? - Shitty books on crappy paper.
№ 459030   Added Viker 07-12-2023 / 11:29
Most of the residents are gone with the advent of the Imperial army, and abandoned houses converted to soldiers ' barracks, and a patio and gardens to the stables. Plundered the Church is now a warehouse and Arsenal, the altar broken and put to wood for camp fires.
Quote Explanation: Destruction in Spain during the wars with France. The days of the late 1790's- 1800 years.
№ 365992   Added MegaMozg 09-04-2019 / 11:10
The captain finished his coffee and calling the waiter, ordered another Cup. With a drop of vodka is good for digestion. In Puntales we all have trouble with the stomach.
Quote Explanation: Portales is a city in Spain, not far from Cadiz.
№ 365991   Added MegaMozg 09-04-2019 / 11:09
This pensive smile of any French soldier or officer will catch the creeps. However, before him is a man deeply a civilian, even though in military uniform. Soldiers on hour.
№ 365990   Added MegaMozg 09-04-2019 / 11:08
What the hell am I stuck here and breed stupid racey instead of teach physics in Metz? Wretched man that I am... How I was brought to this hole, the most that neither is a European wilderness?
Quote Explanation: Lamenting the French captain, leading the attack of Cadiz, Spain.
№ 365989   Added MegaMozg 09-04-2019 / 11:07
And new markets will fail. Look at the Russian... If the king of France will declare war, they need everything.
Quote Explanation: Spain began to lose its overseas colonies. Spanish businessmen hoping for trade with Russia. Talking about the time before the Russo-French war of 1812.
№ 365987   Added MegaMozg 09-04-2019 / 11:05
In the eyes of society there is no sin is heavier than Neizvestnaya circumstances idleness.
№ 365984   Added MegaMozg 09-04-2019 / 11:02
Weep like a woman, if you failed to defend like a man.
№ 365982   Added MegaMozg 09-04-2019 / 08:02
Vae victis. Woe to the vanquished.
№ 365980   Added MegaMozg 09-04-2019 / 07:02
"Be thou cursed forever... go to hell... filthy dog... the sun is still not down, and I'm the fourth, honor... I swear I will skin you alive..." Zebranky quite ornate - makes itself felt the education.
№ 365978   Added MegaMozg 09-04-2019 / 06:03
Emotions, Commissioner, you will give 100 points ahead of fried flounder.
№ 365977   Added MegaMozg 09-04-2019 / 06:02
Yeah, he should know English - the greedy, arrogant, always ready to find any excuse to cynically violate any Treaty, and to violate oath. It yourself know, what a shameless nation. And nothing changes the fact that due to the changeable conditions of war and political intricacies of England became the ally of Spain, fighting against Napoleon.
Quote Explanation: The opinion of the Spaniard during the protracted wars with France 1800 years, when England was then for, then against Spain.
№ 365976   Added MegaMozg 09-04-2019 / 05:02
Nowhere in any of the sea world cannot be considered safe.
№ 365975   Added MegaMozg 09-04-2019 / 04:06