Quote by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (about Life, Time, Boredom)

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.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind

Life Time Boredom

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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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Books

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

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Memories are worse than bullets.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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

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

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

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Los Angeles

Welcome to a city where people trying to disappear aren't actually trying.

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Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor.

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

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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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Ignorance

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.

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

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Money Work

Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

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Life Pain Hurting Falling down

How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold.

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Only when you're stupid, can life be boring.

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After all, you still need time to just sit there and take a look around.

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What other people think of you is none of your business.

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Love

The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light.

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Darkness

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

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The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

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