People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.
Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.
Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.
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.
A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.
that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.
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.
Sometimes feeling and thinking are one and the same.
We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.
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.
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.
There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honourable than to be someone.
But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.
I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.
Deep down we've never been who we think we once were, and we only remember what never happened.
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.
Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.
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.
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.
. . .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.
Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.
I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain. One of the great Catalan poets, Joan Maragall, wrote this famous poem in which he called Barcelona the great enchantress, or some kind of sorceress, and in which the city has this dark enticing presence that seduces and lures people. I think Barcelona has a lot of that.
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