Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes

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Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Dream, Needs, Might

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Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.

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Inspirational, Running, Book

Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.16, Penguin

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Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Wise, Men, Coward

Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.277, Penguin

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Destiny doesn't do home visits... you have to go for it yourself.

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Home, Destiny, Visits You

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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.

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Lonely, Confused, Taken

Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.172, Penguin

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It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means - be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our own lives or the absence of meaning.

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Mean, Certainty Of Death, Void

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Few things are more deceptive than memories.

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Memories, Deceptive

Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.212, Penguin

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There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies; the second your family. Sometimes the difference between them is hard to see, but in the end time will show you that the cards you have been dealt could always have been worse.

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Things In Life, Two, Differences

Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2011). “The Midnight Palace”, p.186, Hachette UK

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Waiting is the rust of the soul.

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Waiting, Soul, Rust

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

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Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

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Remember, Let Me Go, Corners

Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.424, Penguin

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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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Time, Too Much, Taught

Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.424, Penguin

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A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared.

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Good Friend, Light, Cockroaches

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None of us are what we once were.

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2012). “The Prisoner of Heaven”, p.60, Hachette UK

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One mustn't dream of one's future; one must earn it.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Dream

Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2012). “The Prisoner of Heaven”, p.104, Hachette UK

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It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.

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Up To You, Waste, Too Short

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

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People, Soul, Trying

Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2012). “The Prisoner of Heaven: A Novel”, p.14, Harper Collins

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You know who your true friends are when things go wrong for you, but the opposite is also true. When things go well, the people who really love you are happy.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

True Friend, Love You, Opposites

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Sometimes feeling and thinking are one and the same.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Thinking, Feelings, Sometimes

Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2009). “The Angel's Game: The Cemetery of Forgotten”, p.239, Hachette UK

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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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Fear, Common Sense, Scared

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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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Once I'd worked out that I couldn't possibly expect people to enjoy a monstrous, 3000-page book, I realised I could in fact create a labyrinth of a story with four different points of entry. But what interested me was creating something that would rearrange itself every time you read one of the other books. So depending on which order you read them, the implications and angles would change. To get that right, each one of the books had to have its own personality and texture -- even though they are connected, they are very different creatures.

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Book, Order, Creating

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A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Liars, Lying, Keys

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Maturity is simply the process of discovering that everything you believed in when you were young is false and that all the things you refused to believe in turn out to be true.

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Believe, Maturity, Process

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Deep down we've never been who we think we once were, and we only remember what never happened.

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Life, Thinking, Remember

Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2012). “The Prisoner of Heaven”, p.60, Hachette UK

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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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Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2012). “The Prisoner of Heaven”, p.147, Hachette UK

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Born: September 25, 1964
Occupation: Novelist
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