The best Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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The best Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Carlos Ruiz Zafón (25 September 1964 – 19 June 2020) was a Spanish novelist known for his 2001 novel La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind).

Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.

The Angel's Game

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Heart Breakup Sad Quotes

Time does to the body what stupidity does to the soul.

Foolishness Age

If people thought a quarter of what they speak, this world would be heaven.

Paris is the only city in the world where starving oneself is still considered art.

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.

The Angel's Game

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Books Writing Reading

The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.

The Shadow of the Wind

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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.

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But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.

The Shadow of the Wind

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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.

The Angel's Game

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A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

The Shadow of the Wind

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Stories Writing

Memories are worse than bullets.

The Shadow of the Wind

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Memories Breakup

The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.

The Shadow of the Wind

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People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

The Shadow of the Wind

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We all have a secret buried under lock and key in the attic of our soul.

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People only disappear when they have somewhere to go.

All the geography, trigonometry, and arithmetic in the world are useless unless you learn to think for yourself. No school teaches you that.

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

Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.

The Shadow of the Wind

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Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

The Shadow of the Wind

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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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Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that 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.

The Shadow of the Wind

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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.

The Shadow of the Wind

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Life Time Boredom

Making money isn't hard in itself. What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.

The Shadow of the Wind

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Every book, every volume 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. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.

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One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn’t aware of it.

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"One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."

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That's L.A. They worship everything and they value nothing.

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If you only ever read one book in your life I highly recommend... keeping your f*cking mouth shut.

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It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

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The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.

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Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed, it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

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A true hero isn't measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.

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Heart Heros Size

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

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Who's the more foolish? The fool or the fool who follows him?

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All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

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So you're single? In Paris? Now I'm even more jealous. I mean, your life is croissants and sex.

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