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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 people you remember and people you dream of.

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  Dream, People, Remember

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.309, Penguin

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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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• 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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• 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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• I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.

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  Thinking, People, Judging

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• We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

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  Dream, Awake, Our Lives

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

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  Lying, Numbers, Telling The Truth

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.189, Penguin

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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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  Ideas, Stupidity, Excess

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• Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.

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  Thinking, Mad, Madmen

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• Memories are worse than bullets.

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  Memories, Bullets

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.407, Penguin

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• The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.

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  Thinking, Forever, Moments

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.169, Penguin

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• The air seemed poisoned with fear and hatred. People eyed on another suspiciously, and the streets smelled of a silence that knotted your stomach.

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  Air, People, Silence

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.382, Penguin

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• Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most.

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  Hurt, Stupidity, Reason

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.50, Penguin

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• But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.

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  Giving Up, What Matters, Good Times

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.178, Penguin

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• If people thought a quarter of what they speak, this world would be heaven.

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  People, Heaven, Would Be

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• Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered.

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  Important, Remembered

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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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  Dream, Book, Soul

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• Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station.

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  Time, Past, Faster

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.410, Penguin

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• Who are the lunatics? The ones who see horror in the heart of their fellow humans and search for peace at any price? Or the ones who pretend they don't see what's going on around them? The world belongs either to lunatics or hypocrites. There are no other races on this earth. You must choose which one to belong to.

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  Heart, Hypocrite, Race

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• that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.

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  Truth, Long, Alive

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

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• Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.

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  Blow, People, Suffering

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.30, 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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• 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.

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  Memories, Father, Book

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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.

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  Thinking, People, Wish

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