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While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.
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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Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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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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
Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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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You're as white as a nun's buttock. Are you all right?
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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.
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One mustn't dream of one's future one must earn it.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Men are like chestnuts they sell in the street: they're all hot and they all smell good when you buy them, but when you take them out of the paper cone you realise that most of them are rotten inside.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
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Nothing important is learned it is simply remembered.
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We exist as long as somebody remembers us.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.
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Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I knew when I was writing The Angel's Game that a lot of people would be upset that I didn't write Shadow Of The Wind 2. That's okay, that's part of the game. You do what you have to do. If they like it, great. If they don't, too bad. What are you going to do?
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I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honourable than to be someone.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
For some reason, I never felt the need to have kids. My wife feels the same. We don't feel a void. I don't think they would give my life meaning. I do think of the books as my children, though. Whatever is inside of me, I put into my books.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
