I'm one of those people who finds refuge in books, light, solutions. In some moments I have felt that some books speak to me and point out to me paths that I would never have imagined. I have taken the habit, for example, of opening books of poetry at random and seeing what some poem tells me. I am almost convinced that many times these poems have encouraged me to continue. As is the case with a poem by Mario Benedetti that says:
Don't give up, please don't give in,
Even if the cold burns,
Even if fear bites,
Even if the sun goes down,
And let the wind be silent,
There's still fire in your soul
There's still life in your dreams.
As for book quotations, whether narrative or essay, I'm a collector. I have a notebook full of quotations that at some point I have used as inspiration for writing or I have simply used them as an epigraph. Books have souls, the souls of all those who read them. As Carlos Ruiz Zafón says in his brilliant novel The Shadow of the Wind: Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it, lived and dreamed about it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone lowers their eyes to the pages, their spirit grows and strengthens.
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