Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes

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

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  Dream, Needs, Might

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• Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.

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  Home, Destiny, Visits You

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.215, Penguin

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• Everything can be forgiven in this world, save telling the truth.

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  World, Telling The Truth, This World

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• somethings can only be seen in the shadows

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  Shadow

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.15, 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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• 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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• 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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• We all give up great expectations along the way.

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  Giving Up, Expectations, Way

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• Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.

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  Wise, Men, Coward

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

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• We are puppets of our subconscious desires.

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  Desire, Puppets, Subconscious

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.420, 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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• The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.

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  Children, Memories, Heart

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.161, Penguin

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

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  Thinking, Mad, Madmen

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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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• 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.

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  Dream

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

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• It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality.

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  Reality, Impossible, States

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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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• 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.

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  True Friend, Love You, Opposites

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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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