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Carlos Ruiz Zafon Inspirational Quotes (155)

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The rain was still crashing down, angrily machine-gunning the large windows it poured through the gutters up in the tower and funneled along the flat roof, sounding like footsteps on the ceiling.
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We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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How many lost souls do You need, Lord, to satisfy Your hunger? the hatter asked. God, in His infinite silence, looked at him without blinking.
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There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.
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Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?
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You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.
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... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.
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. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that? “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.
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That's what happens when people reach old age nobody remembers they've been bastards too.
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Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.
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There are worse prisons than words.
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All I know is that once Julián told the kids in the building that he had a sister only he could see. He said she came out of mirrors as if she were made of thin air and that she lived with Satan himself in a palace at the bottom of a lake.
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They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.
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Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.
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They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.
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One mustn't dream of one's future one must earn it.
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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.
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There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies the second your family. Sometimes the difference between them is hard to see, but in the end time will show you that the cards you have been dealt could always have been worse.
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I think today will be the day. Today our luck will change,' I proclaimed on the wings of the first coffee of the day, pure optimism in a liquid state.
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I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.
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A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.
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If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.
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I like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations.
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I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.
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