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Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense. (Carlos Ruiz Zafón)
Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool. View quote
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I discovered that seventeen-year-old girls have such huge verbal energy that their brain drives them to expend it every twenty seconds. On the third day I decided I had to find her a boyfriend -- if possible, a deaf one. View quote
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A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us. View quote
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I leafed through the pages, inhaling the enchanted scent of promise that comes with all new books, and stopped to read the start of a sentence that caught my eye. View quote
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Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood. View quote
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I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time. View quote
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Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it. View quote
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Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music. View quote
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Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself and one's limitations. To achieve anything you must first have ambition and then talent, knowledge, and finally the opportunity. View quote
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A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from. (Carlos Ruiz Zafón)
A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise. View quote
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I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets. View quote
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One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep. View quote
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Few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later--no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover or how much we learn or forget--we will return. View quote
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I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone. View quote
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People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots. View quote
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Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything. View quote
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Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away. View quote
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Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind. View quote
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It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short. (Carlos Ruiz Zafón)
It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face. View quote
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That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that reason alone, a book that didn't matter to anyone changed my life. View quote
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I turned you into a stranger in order to forget you and now I'm the stranger. View quote
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Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves. But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers. View quote
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