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Famous Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes
“that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.”
“I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.”
“Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
“It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.”
“God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.”
“People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.”
“People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.”
“You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.”
“Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.”
“A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.”
“There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.”
“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
“In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.”
“We exist as long as somebody remembers us.”
“Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.”
“To truly hate is an art one learns with time.”
“There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.”
“There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.”
“One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn’t aware of it.”
“Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.”