Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes - Page 8

• Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.

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  Liars, Childhood, Fool

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• Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.

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  Sabio, Vino, Hombres

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2009). “The Shadow Of The Wind”, p.254, Hachette UK

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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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  Reality, Order, Ideas

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.423, Penguin

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• You women listen more to your heart and less to all the nonsense. That's why you live longer.

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  Heart, Nonsense

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.406, Penguin

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• Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it in the most pompous and pedantic way possible?... Is it to fool the world or just to fool themselves?

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  World, Way, Fool

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• He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets.

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  Stars, Flying, Mind

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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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  Boys, Men, Dying

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• When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.

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  Wind, Shadow, Shadow Of The Wind

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• It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.

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  Teacher, Way, Students

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• A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.

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  Book, Mirrors, Shadow Of The Wind

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.457, Penguin

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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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  Ideas, Stories, Lessons

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• As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light that filtered through the cracks or from the glass lanterns embedded in the wooden structure, floating among mirrors and shadows.

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  Book, Glasses, Mirrors

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• I hoped my absence made them happy or at least made them forget that they weren't happy and never will be.

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  Forget, Absence, Made

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• It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.

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  Pieces, Paper, Faces

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• 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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  Children, Growing Up, Father

  Carlos Ruiz Zafón (2005). "La sombra del viento", p.178, Penguin

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• Todo laberinto tiene su minotauro

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  Labyrinth, Minotaur

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• Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.

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  Believe, Desire, Doe

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.298, Penguin

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• A Gentleman's agreement cannot be broken without breaking the person who has entered into it.

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  Agreement, Broken, Gentleman

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• You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court.

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  Winning, Games, Balls

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2009). “The Angel's Game: The Cemetery of Forgotten”, p.163, Hachette UK

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• Write," he said. "I'll write to you as soon as I get there," answered Julian. "No. Not to me. Write books. Not letters. Write them for me, for Penelope.

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  Book, Writing, Letters

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.263, Penguin

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• He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or in other people... I got the feeling that Julián was living in the past, locked in his memories. Julián lived within himself, for his books and inside them - a comfortable prison of his own design." "You say this as if you envied him." "There are worse prisons than words.

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  Memories, Book, Past

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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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  Silence, Soul, Needs

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.388, Penguin

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• Truth is, only the useless get to the top in this country.

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  Country, Useless, Truth Is

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• Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.

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  Los Angeles

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• One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility of old Victorian Gothic tales and reconstruct them in a modern way.

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  Ambition, Bridges, Way

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