Quotes About Legacy

Un hombre ha de tener vicios, a ser posible de categoría, o cuando llega a la vejez no tiene de qué redimirse. De

Le jour où je disparaîtrais, tout ce que je possède sera à toi, Juliàn, disait-il souvent. Sauf les rêves

De todas las cosas que escribió Julian, la que siempre he sentido más cercana es que mientras se nos recuerda, seguimos vivos.

Existimos mientras alguien nos recuerda

She discovered a city of shadows, one no longer inhabited by my father

Von allem, was Julián geschrieben hat, ist mir immer das am nächsten gewesen, daß wir, solange man sich unser erinnert, am Leben bleiben.

I said Julián passed away. In Paris. Soon after he got there. He would have done better joining the army.

La gente normale mette al mondo dei figli; noi romanzieri dei libri. Siamo condannati a metterci la vita, anche se quasi mai ce ne sono grati. Siamo condannati a morire nelle loro pagine e a volte perfino a lasciare che siano loro a toglierci la vita

because he had been born to be forgotten.

The apartment was directly above the bookshop, a legacy from my grandfather that specialized in rare collectors' editions and secondhand books—an enchanted bazaar, which my father hoped would one day be mine. I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.

A stroke saw him off on All Souls' Night, with a Cuban cigar in his lips and a twenty-five-year-old on his lap. What a way to go.

He used to say that we exist as long as somebody remembers

I'd like you to talk to that someone about me and, through your words, make me live forever.

The day I die, all that was once mine will be yours…" "…except your dreams.

Of all the things that Julián wrote, the one I have always felt closest to my heart is that so long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.

Julián died alone, convinced that nobody would remember him or his books and that his life had meant nothing," she said. "He would have liked to know that somebody wanted to keep him alive, that someone remembered him. He used to say that we exist as long as somebody remembers us.

His legacy to me was his considerable repertoire of smoke and mirrors. And he asked me to let him go, because he had been born to be forgotten.

The day I die, all that was once mine, will be yours...except my dreams. ~The Shadow of the Winds

as we are remembered, we remain alive.

Tengo cosas que hacer. Después tendré toda la vida para morirme.

In this place, books no longer remembered by anyone, books that are lost in time, live forever, waiting for the day when they will reach a new reader's hands.

We have the circus in our blood.

En particular, me interesa saber si ha mencionado alguna vez un cementerio de los libros olvidados o muertos, o algo así. Piénsalo bien antes de contestar. ¿Te ha hablado Martín de ese lugar alguna vez?

Las guerras no tienen memoria y nadie se atreve a comprenderlas hasta que ya no quedan voces para contar lo que pasó, hasta que llega el momento en que no se las reconoce y regresan, con otra cara y otro nombre, a devorar lo que dejaron atrás»