Quotes From "The Angels Game" By Unknown

I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die. Unknown

It is a part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means, be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our lives, or the absence of meaning. These are basic and extremely simple aspects of existence, but our limitations prevent us from responding in an unequivocal way and for that reason we generate an emotional response, as a defense mechanism. It's pure biology. . Unknown

Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself and one's limitations. To achieve anything you must first have ambition and then talent, knowledge, and finally the opportunity. Unknown

Senor Sempere believed that God lives, to a smaller or greater extent, in books, and that is why he devoted his life to sharing them, to protecting them, and to making sure their pages, like our memories and our desires, are never lost. Unknown

Do you know what religion is, Martin, my friend?- I can barely remember Lord's Prayer.-A beautiful and well-crafted prayer. Poetry aside, a religion is really a moral code that is expressed through legends, myths, or any type of literary device in order to establish a system of beliefs, values , and rules with which to regulate a culture or a society. Unknown

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. Unknown

To Senor Sempere, the best friend a book could ever have: you opened the doors to the world for me and showed me how to go through them. Unknown

Ignatius B. Samson, welcome to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. Unknown

I was no longer able to hear the music that issues from a decent piece of prose. Unknown

Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything. Unknown

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. Unknown

Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it. Unknown

Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks. Unknown

I discovered that seventeen-year-old girls have such huge verbal energy that their brain drives them to expend it every twenty seconds. On the third day I decided I had to find her a boyfriend -- if possible, a deaf one. Unknown

I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain. Unknown

He was waiting for me at the best table in the room, toying with a glass of white wine and listening to the pianist who was playing a piece by Granados with velvet fingers. Unknown

-Do you think it's dirty money?- All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it. Unknown

It's possible, and I stress possible, that such a moment may never come: you may not fall in love, you may not be able to or you may not wish to give your whole life to anyone, and, like me, you may turn forty-five one day and realize that you're no longer young and you have never found a choir of cupids with lyres or a bed of white roses leading to the altar. The only revenge left for you then will be to steal from life the pleasure of firm and passionate flesh - a pleasure that evaporates faster than good intentions and is the nearest thing to heaven you will find in this stinking world where everything decays, beginning with beauty and ending with memory. Unknown

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality. Unknown

You don't look well, " he pronounced." Indigestion, " I replied." From what?"" Reality."" Join the queue. Unknown

I wandered off, walking through streets that seemed emptier than ever, thinking that if I didn't stop, if I kept on walking, I wouldn't notice that the world I thought I knew was no longer there. Unknown

Every self-respecting act of persuasion must find appeal to curiosity, then to vanity, and lastly to kindness or remorse. Isabella looked down and slowly nodded. Unknown

Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away. Unknown

Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species. Unknown

Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute. Unknown

The day I charge an unbeliever like you for the word of God will be the day I'm struck dead by lightning, and with good reason. Unknown

An intellectual is usually someone who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect, " Corelli asserted. "he claims that label to compensate for his inadequacies. It's as old as that saying : "Tell me what you boast of and I'll tell you what you lack. Our daily bread. The incompetent always present themselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as devout, usurers as benefactors, the small-minded as patriots, the arrogant as humble, the vulgar as elegant, and the feeble-minded as intellectual. Once again, it's all the work of nature. Far from being the sylph to whom poets sing, nature is a cruel, voracious mother who needs to feed on the creatures she gives birth to in order to stay alive. . Unknown

Justice is an affectation of perspective, not a universal value. Unknown

Whether we realize it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favoring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act. Nothing arouses a passion for dogma more than a good antagonist. And the more unlikely, the better. … It’s difficult to hate an idea. … It’s much easier to hate someone with a recognizable face whom we can blame for everything that makes us feel uncomfortable. It doesn’t have to be an individual character. It could be a nation, a race, a group … anything. Unknown

A young man is the perfect soldier. He has great potential for aggression and a limited critical capacity - or none at all - with which to analyze it and judge how to channel it. Unknown

A young man is the perfect soldier. He has great potential for aggression and a limited critical capacity–or none at all–with which to analyze it and judge how to channel it. Throughout history societies have found ways of using this store of aggression, turning their adolescents into soldiers, cannon fodder with which to conquer their neighbors or defend themselves against their aggressors. Unknown

All business opportunities stem from someone else's inability to resolve a simple and inevitable problem. Unknown

Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive. Unknown

Its impossible to initiate a rational dialogue with some one about beliefs and concepts if he has not acquired them through reason. It doesn't matter whether we are looking at God, race, or national pride. Unknown

A Gentleman's agreement cannot be broken without breaking the person who has entered into it. Unknown

The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction. Unknown

We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake. Unknown

This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise. Unknown

Inspiration comes when you stick your elbows on the table, your bottom on the chair and you start sweating. Choose a theme, an idea, and squeeze your brain until it hurts. That's called inspiration. Unknown

You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court. Unknown

History is biology's dumping ground Unknown

Envy is the religion of the mediocre. It comforts them, it soothes their worries, and finally it rots their souls, allowing them to justify their meanness and their greed until they believe these to be virtues. Such people are convinced that the doors of heaven will be opened only to poor wretches like themselves who go through life without leaving any trace but their threadbare attempts to belittle others and to exclude - and destroy if possible - those who, by the simple fact of their existence, show up their own poorness of spirit, mind, and guts. Blessed be the one at whom the fools bark, because his soul will never belong to them. . Unknown