Carlos Ruiz Zafón Short Quotes

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In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón
While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón
I decided that my existence would be one of books and silence.

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I like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations.

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Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.

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Everything can be forgiven in this world, save telling the truth.

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

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A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

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

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It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.

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People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.

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This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.

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Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

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Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.

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I turned you into a stranger in order to forget you and now I'm the stranger.

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Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.

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I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.

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Resentment slowly poisoned my blood and I laughed at myself and my absurd hopes.

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Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.

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There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.

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People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.

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

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It's a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.

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Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.

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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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It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.

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Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.

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Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.

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People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

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

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