Carlos Ruiz Zafón quotes - page 3

Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires. (Carlos Ruiz Zafón)
Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.
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Deep down we've never been who we think we once were, and we only remember what never happened.
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Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late.
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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.
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Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.
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There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness.
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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.
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The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.
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All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind.
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Old age is the lubricant of belief. When death knocks at the door, skepticism flies out the window. A serious cardiovascular fright and a person will even believe in Little Red Riding Hood. (Carlos Ruiz Zafón)
We all give up great expectations along the way.
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Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
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Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.
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Nothing is fair. The most one can hope is for things to be logical. Justice is a rare illness in a world that is otherwise a picture of health.
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Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.
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I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.
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It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.
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The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.
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Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.
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To truly hate is an art one learns with time. (Carlos Ruiz Zafón)
Memories are worse than bullets.
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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
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Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.
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Everything can be forgiven in this world, save telling the truth.
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