Carlos Ruiz Zafón - The Angel's Game (2008)

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I wandered off, walking through streets that seemed emptier than ever, thinking that if I didn't stop, if I kept on walking, I wouldn't notice that the world I thought I knew was no longer there.

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

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Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.

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The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him.

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It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.

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I discovered that seventeen-year-old girls have such huge verbal energy that their brain drives them to expend it every twenty seconds. On the third day I decided I had to find her a boyfriend — if possible, a deaf one.

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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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I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.

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

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Old age is the lubricant of belief. When death knocks at the door, skepticism flies out the window. A serious cardiovascular fright and a person will even believe in Little Red Riding Hood.

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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.

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There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness.

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

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