Because God and the devil could be one and the same thing, and everybody understood it in his … - Arturo Pérez-Reverte

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Barack Obama is a president who, when he had to deal with the 2008 economic crisis, has led the American economy on a completely different path than the one that Europe has chosen eight years later.

Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Because God and the devil could be one and the same thing, and everybody understood it in his own way.

Devil, Same, Understood, Way

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Never trust a man who reads only one book.

Book, Man, Men, Never Trust, Reads

Later, with time, I learned that although all men are capable of good and evil, the worst among them are those who, when they commit evil, do so by shielding themselves in the authority of others, in their subordination, or in the excuse of following orders. And even worse are those who believe they are justified by their God.

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Centuries of make-up that can be smudged by emotion have taught women to control their feelings.

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One is never alone with a book nearby, don't you agree? Every page reminds us of a day that has passed and makes us relive the emotions that filled it. Happy hours underlined in red pencil, dark ones in black.

Black, Book, Dark, Day, Page

She loves you, loathes you, treats you well, then ill. Like a leech or a surgeon's knife, she's double-edged: sometimes she'll cure, but sometimes she will kill.

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Barack Obama is a president who, when he had to deal with the 2008 economic crisis, has led the American economy on a completely different path than the one that Europe has chosen eight years later.

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