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“It's an honor, indeed I'm glad, to join in giving a warm reception to a book that has given me many delightful moments.”

Quote by Enrique Vila-Matas

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Enrique Vila-Matas

Enrique Vila-Matas, born on March 31, 1948, is a Spanish novelist known for his unique narrative style and reflections on literary traditions. more

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“Had I mentioned to someone around 1795 that I planned to write, anyone with any sense would have told me to write for two hours every day, with or without inspiration. Their advice would have enabled me to benefit from the ten years of my life I totally wasted waiting for inspiration.”

Writing Years Two Inspiration Waiting Hours Advice Ten Benefits

Book:Bartleby & Co.

Source: Bartleby & Co.

“The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat.”

Book:The invention of Morel

Source: The invention of Morel

“To be on an island inhabited by artificial ghosts was the most unbearable of nightmares,- to be in love with one of those images was worse than being in love with a ghost (perhaps we always want the person we love to have the existenceof a ghost).”

Want Persons Ghost Islands Nightmare Artificial Being In Love Unbearable

Book:The invention of Morel

Source: The invention of Morel

“I believe we lose immortality because we have not conquered our opposition to death; we keep insisting on the primary, rudimentary idea: that the whole body should be kept alive. We should seek to preserve only the part that has to do with consciousness.”

Should Believe Ideas Whole Body I Believe Loses Consciousness Alive Primaries Preserves Immortality Opposition Insisting

Book:The invention of Morel

Source: The invention of Morel

“Perhaps we always want the person we love, to have the existence of a ghost.”

Want Persons Existence Ghost

Book:The invention of Morel

Source: The invention of Morel

“A body is a body, but only voices are capable of love”

Body Voice Capable

Book:The Absent City

Source: The Absent City

“We are nothing: imitations, copies, phantoms: repeaters of what we understand badly, that is, hardly at all: the animated fossils of a prehistory that have lived neither here nor there, consequently anywhere, for we are aboriginal foreigners, transplanted from birth in our respective countries of origin.”

Country Birth Copies Imitation Fossils Foreigners Animated Phantoms Aboriginal Prehistory

Author:Enrique Lihn

“I choose what I believe, and say nothing. For I am not as simple as I may seem.”

Believe May Seems I Believe Simple

Author:Catherine of Aragon

“Keep your heart with a chaste mind”

Mind Heart Chaste

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“As long as His Majesty is sick, I will move my bed to his chambers, the better to care for him.”

Long Care Moving Bed Sick Chamber Majesty

Author:Catherine Parr