Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes - Page 3

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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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• 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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• We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, very few people are remotely interested or aware of their own recent history, much less their neighbors'. I tend to think we are what we remember, what we know. The less we remember, the less we know about ourselves, the less we are. (Interview with Three Monkeys Online, October 2008)

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  Thinking, People, Three

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• Sometimes feeling and thinking are one and the same.

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  Thinking, Feelings, Sometimes

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

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• I don't care what happens in 100 years. I won't be around.

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  Years, Care, Happens

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• I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.

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  Friendship, People, Lots Of Friends

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2009). “The Angel's Game: The Cemetery of Forgotten”, p.74, Hachette UK

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• 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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  Dark, Men, Thinking

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• Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.

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  Girl, Needs, Approval

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.177, Penguin

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• Life had taught her that we all require big and small lies in order to survive, just as much as we need air. She used to say that if during one single day, from dawn to dusk, we could see the naked reality of the world, and of ourselves, we would either take our own lives or lose our minds.

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  Lying, Reality, Air

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• Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves. But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers.

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  Needs, Electricity, Shock

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.90, Penguin

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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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  Dream, Wind, Hatred

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.171, Penguin

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• I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.

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  Memories, Loneliness, Heart

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

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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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• I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.

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  Remember

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• I tried to swallow his nonsense without choking.

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  Nonsense, Choke

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• I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.

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  Reading, Imagination, Soul

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.36, Penguin

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• I wondered what on earth she saw in me that could make her want to befriend me, other than a pale reflection of herself, an echo of solitude and loss. In my ..reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and second hand dreams

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  Dream, Book, Loss

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.37, Penguin

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• Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.

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  Loneliness, Going Away

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• I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.

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  Sheep, Needs, Herds

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2012). “The Prisoner of Heaven”, p.159, Hachette UK

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• The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory

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  Memories, Book, Ideas

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• Whether we realise it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favouring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act.

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  Way, Easier, Realising

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• Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.

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  Fate, Desire, Puppets

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.420, Penguin

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• Television is the Antichrist, and I can assure you after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how to fart on their own and humans will return to medieval savagery and to the general state of imbecility that slugs overcame back in the Pleistocene era. Our world will not die as a result of the bomb...it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything and a lousy joke at that.

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  Laughter, Our World, People

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

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  Believe, Order, Breathe

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2009). “The Angel's Game: The Cemetery of Forgotten”, p.164, Hachette UK

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