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In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
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More quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A good father. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A man capable of listening, of leading and respecting a child, and not of drowning his own defects in him. Someone whom a child will not only love because he's his father, but will also admire for the person he is. Someone he would want to grow up to resemble.
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My wife and I were never happy here. Spain can be narrow-minded, and provincial. In LA you don't have to justify yourself. I think I will leave here again soon and move back there.
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It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means - be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our own lives or the absence of meaning.
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Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
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God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.
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somethings can only be seen in the shadows
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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.
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Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.
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The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.
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A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared.
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There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honourable than to be someone.
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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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Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.
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One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.
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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And its a woman whos extremely vain.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.
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We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
To truly hate is an art one learns with time.
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The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.
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