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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Dream, Reality, Impossible

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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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• A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.

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  Liars, Lying, Keys

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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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• 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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• People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

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  Life, People, Lesson Learned

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.75, Penguin

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.

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  Fear, Common Sense, Scared

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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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• 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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• Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered.

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  Important, Remembered

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

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  Years, Care, Happens

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