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“Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.”
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#Remember #Let Me Go
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“...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with my own life, like someone who has escaped into the pages of a novel because those whom he needs to love seem nothing more than ghosts inhabiting the mind of a stranger.”
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#Lonely #Confused #Taken
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“Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#Wise #Men #Coward
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“We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music”
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#Song #Believe #Thinking
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“Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.”
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#Memories #Father #Book
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“People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.”
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#Life #People #Lesson Learned
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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.”
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#Thinking #People #Wish
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“Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.”
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#Dream #Book #Soul
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“I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.”
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#Book #Dust #Hands
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“Waiting is the rust of the soul.”
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#Waiting #Soul #Rust
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“Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.”
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#Time #Too Much #Taught
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“Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.”
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#Book #Tradition #Passports
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“Never trust he who trusts everyone.”
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#Trust #Never Trust
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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.”
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#People #Lots Of Friends
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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.”
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#Forget #Absence #Made
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“I turned you into a stranger in order to forget you and now I'm the stranger.”
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#Order #Forget You #Forget
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“And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything.”
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#Stupid #Thinking #Knowing
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“Whenever it poured like this, Max felt as if time was pausing. It was like a cease-fire during which you could stop whatever you were doing and just stand by a window for hours, watching the performance, an endless curtain of tears falling from heaven.”
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#Fall #Fire #Heaven
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“I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.”
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#Thinking #People #Judging
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“Normal people bring children into the world; we novelists bring books. We are condemned to put our whole lives into them, even though they hardly ever thank us for it. We are condemned to die in their pages and sometimes even to let our books be the ones who, in the end, will take our lives.”
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#Children #Book #People
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“It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality.”
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#Reality #Impossible #States
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“Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills. Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.”
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#Animal #Men #Skills
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“I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling; it's different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.”
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#Kings #Way #Sound
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“There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.”
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#Second Chance #Feels #Chances In Life
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“Man...heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand...heats up like an iron. Slowly, over a low heat, like tasty stew. But then, once she has heated up, there's no stopping her.”
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#Sex #Women #Eye
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“This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.”
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#Stupid #Epidemics #Stupidity
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“Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.”
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#Loneliness #Going Away
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“It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.”
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#Destiny #Might #Chance
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“Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves. But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers.”
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#Needs #Electricity #Shock
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“Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.”
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#Reading #Book #Heart
