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A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
An intellectual is some one who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect. He claims that label to compensates for his inadequacies.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Every piece of that marvelous world was a silent tear.
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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.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.
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Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
That as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.
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Justice is an affectation of perspective, not a universal value.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
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It was a magnificent day; the skies were electric blue, and a crystal breeze carried the cool scent of autumn and the sea.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
How many lost souls do You need, Lord, to satisfy Your hunger? the hatter asked. God, in His infinite silence, looked at him without blinking.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Mother Nature is the meanest of bitches, that's the sad truth
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It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
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One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Destiny doesn't do home visits ... you have to go for it yourself.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
God bless, and don't hesitate never to come back here again.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
( ... )where tourists and people from the city came in search of sand, sun and expensive forms of boredome.
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If there is a god, or hundreds of them, I hope they will forgive me for the harm I may have inflicted on you by telling you exactly what happened.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
You're as white as a nun's buttock. Are you all right?
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Don't be bashful; we're among gentlemen. It's a known fact that we men are the missing link between the pirate and the pig.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
But I felt sure that The Shadow of the Wind had been waiting there for me for years, probably since before I was born.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
It was a well-known fact that the richness of buttery foods led to the moral ruin and confusion of the intellect.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The day I charge an unbeliever like you for the word of God will be the day I'm struck dead by lightning, and with good reason.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Don't make the mistake of confusing the word of God with the missal industry that lives off it.
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I bent over her and kissed her lips. She embraced me, and we remained like that as the light from the candle sputtered then went out.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Death does that: it makes everyone feel sentimental. When we stand in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what we want to see.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
One mustn't dream of one's future; one must earn it.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Army, Marriage, the Church, and Baking: the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse. Fermin Romero de Torres - The Shadow of the Wind. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Sometimes feeling and thinking are one and the same.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The echo of voices and old radios rose through these canyons of poverty, but only as far as the rooftops. The voice of the Raval never reaches heaven.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The public will always choose a warmed-up lie over the cold truth.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Do you like mysteries?" I nodded. I think if she'd asked me whether I liked arsenic or cyanide on toast I would have given her the same answer. "Are
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Do you want to set fire to the whole world and burn with it?Let's do it together. You fix the price. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
In an infinite universe, there were too many things that escaped human understanding.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Coincidences are the scars of fate.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Why is it that the less on has to say the more one says it in the most pompous and pedantic way possible?
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Blaming TV as an abstract entity is nonsensical. It's our hand on the remote. There's a world out there outside the tube.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The dead never go to their own funeral.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Men are like that. They're like geraniums. When they look as if they're ready to be tossed into the bin they revive.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Truth is always safe from people.
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To truly hate is an act one learns with time
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Some years had passed, but one never forgets faces one wholeheartedly detests.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Youth is like a fickle girlfriend. We can't understand or value her until she goes off with someone else, never to return.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Envy is a blind man who wants to pull out your eyes.
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We exist as long as somebody remembers us.
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Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.
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You women listen more to your heart and less to all the nonsense. That's why you live longer.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody's best friend.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
There were no more ghosts there than those of absence and loss,
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I'm not sure whether to thank you or report you to the police, he said at last.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Life isn't like a novel, you know. In life you have to take sides. And it's clear which side you've chosen.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Making money isn't hard in itself ... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Routine is the housekeeper of inspiration
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... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.
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I handed the photo back to her. The caretaker gazed at it as if it were a lucky charm, a return ticket to her youth.
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Sometimes one forgets that not everyone in this world is a bastard.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
For me, Nuria Montfort was like a mirage: you don't question its veracity, you simply follow it until it vanishes or until it destroys you.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
To truly hate is an art one learns with time.
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Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
And then I would think about the war and about the fact that those who waged it were also children once.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I think today will be the day. Today our luck will change,' I proclaimed on the wings of the first coffee of the day, pure optimism in a liquid state.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Silence makes even idiots seem wise for a minute.
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You can come share a tasty meal of bread, raisins, and fresh cheese. With that, and The Count of Monte Cristo, anyone can live to a hundred.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.
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Resentment slowly poisoned my blood and I laughed at myself and my absurd hopes.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Why is it that all wars are won by bankers?
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Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.' - Senor Sempere.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened,
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I'll see you tomorrow, then, around seven,' concluded Clara. 'Do you know the address?
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A story is a letter the author writes to himself to tell what he wouldn't discover otherwise.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
You should only become a writer if the possibility of not becoming one would kill you.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds
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We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Every book, every volume that you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Fewer things leave a deeper mark on the reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
We all give up great expectations along the way.
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Wise men think and speak alike.
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She wandered off into the shadows, carrying her bucket and dragging her shadow like a bridal veil.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Man's meanness is a fuse in search of a flame.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Time curses all, I thought, except the truth.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Even then my only friends were made of paper and ink.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The air seemed poisoned with fear and hatred. People eyed on another suspiciously, and the streets smelled of a silence that knotted your stomach.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
That day was turning out to be longer than The Brothers Karamazov.
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Six years later my mother's absence remained in the air around us, a deafening silence that I had not learned to stifle with words.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.
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