Quotes by Enrique Vila-Matas

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He begins collecting books as well as passions, he knows that the hunt for books, like sexual pursuit, enriches the geography of pleasure.
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No queda otra cosa que una gran masa analfabeta creada deliberadamente por el Poder, una especie de muchedumbre amorfa que nos ha hundido a todos en una mediocridad general.
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Temas: Los de siempre. El pasado ya inalterable, el presente fugitivo, el inexistente futuro.
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After all, what are we, what is any one of us, if not a combination, particular and exact, of what we have done, what we have read, and what we have imagined?
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I think I have the right to be able to see myself differently from how others see me, to see myself however I want and not to be forced to be this person other people have decided I am.
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Miedo al miedo.
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He has always admired writers who each day begin a journey towards the unknown and who nevertheless spend all their time sitting in a room”.
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To miniaturize is also to conceal.
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Siempre he pensado que, cuando oscurece, todos necesitamos a alguien.
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Cuando leo algo que entiendo perfectamente, lo abandono desilusionado. No me gustan los relatos con historias comprensibles. Porque entender puede ser una condena. Y no entender, la puerta que se abre.
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