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Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.
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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Barcelona
Spain
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Who are the lunatics? The ones who see horror in the heart of their fellow humans and search for peace at any price? Or the ones who pretend they don't see what's going on around them? The world belongs either to lunatics or hypocrites. There are no other races on this earth. You must choose which one to belong to.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Why is it that all wars are won by bankers?
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It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honourable than to be someone.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. Its a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and its hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
None of us are what we once were.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Truth is, only the useless get to the top in this country.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
