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My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out. (Carlos Ruiz Zafón)
Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you. View quote
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Every labyrinth has its minotaur. View quote
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do. View quote
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That day was turning out to be longer than. View quote
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Jacinta never told Penelope that she loved her. The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words. View quote
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May I offer you something? A small glass of cyanide? View quote
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Our body begins to destroy itself from the moment it is born. We are fragile. We're creatures of passage. All that is left of us are our actions, the good or the evil we do to our fellow humans. View quote
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Time does to the body what stupidity does to the soul. View quote
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All the geography, trigonometry, and arithmetic in the world are useless unless you learn to think for yourself. No school teaches you that. It's not on the curriculum. View quote
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If you don't know where you're going, you won't go anywhere. (Carlos Ruiz Zafón)
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. View quote
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Patience is the mother of all virtues and the godmother of madness. View quote
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You can come share a tasty meal of bread, raisins, and fresh cheese. With that, andanyone can live to a hundred. View quote
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Poetry aside, a religion is really a moral code that is expressed through legends, myths, or any type of literary device in order to establish a system of beliefs, values, and rules with which to regulate a culture or a society. View quote
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Hope is cruel and has no consequence. View quote
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I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world. View quote
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In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story - 'The Memory Erasers'. View quote
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I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling; it's different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds. View quote
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