

“¿quién dijo que la coincidencia es la manera que Dios tiene de permanecer anónimo?”
― El jilgurero
― El jilgurero
“There’s always something authentic concealed in every forgery”
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“Ideas are like beards. Men don’t have them until they grow up”
― Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
― Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“When the scientific experts finished giving their testimony, the presiding judge asked Van Meegeren if he had any comments...He then added dryly that, from now on, the faking of old-master paintings would, of course, be impossible.”
― The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren
― The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren

“He was a man who knew there were such things as jokes in the world or people would not write about them, but had never actually been introduced to one or shaken its hand.”
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

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