Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• 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.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Dream, Book, Soul

• Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.

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  Dream, Thinking, People

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2009). “The Shadow Of The Wind”, p.254, Hachette UK

• A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a story. He will never forget the sweet poison of vanity in his blood and the belief that, if he succeeds in not letting anyone discover his lack of talent, the dream of literature will provide him with a roof over his head, a hot meal at the end of the day, and what he covets the most: his name printed on a miserable piece of paper that surely will outlive him. A writer is condemned to remember that moment, because from then on he is doomed and his soul has a price.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Dream, Sweet, Blood

• It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Dream, Wind, Hatred

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

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

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Dream, Awake, Our Lives

• Well, this is a story about books." About books?" About accursed books, about a man who wrote them, about a character who broke out of the pages of anovel so that he could burn it, about a betrayal and a lost friendship. It's a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind." You talk like the jacket blurb of a Victorian novel, Daniel." That's probably because I work in a bookshop and I've seen too many. But this is a true story.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Dream, Betrayal, Book

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

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

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Dream, Needs, Might

• 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

• All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other purpose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species. It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for a human being. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

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  Dream, Men, Animal

• In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Dream, Book, Two

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

• Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content. We only accept as true what can be narrated.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Dream, Believe, Character

• 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

• It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Dream, Reality, Impossible

• 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

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Dream, Book, Loss

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

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