Carlos Ruiz Zafón quotes - page 2

Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person. (Carlos Ruiz Zafón)
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.
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It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.
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I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.
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Everything in life in nonsense. It's just a question of persepctive.
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Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.
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I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.
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Destiny doesn't do home visits... you have to go for it yourself.
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Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.
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Waiting is the rust of the soul.
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It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality. (Carlos Ruiz Zafón)
Maturity is simply the process of discovering that everything you believed in when you were young is false and that all the things you refused to believe in turn out to be true.
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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.
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It's a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.
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I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.
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Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.
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Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don't stop at your station.
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I tried to swallow his nonsense without choking.
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that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.
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Whether we realise it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favouring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act.
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This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise. (Carlos Ruiz Zafón)
There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.
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Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered.
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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.
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The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.
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