Carlos Ruiz Zafón citáty

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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.”

“Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.”

“In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.”

“Never trust he who trusts everyone.”

“In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to tell what all those who fell at his side will never be able to tell.”

“Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.”

“The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.”

“When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he’s a saint or they themselves are not telling the whole story.”

“Few things are more deceptive than memories.”

“We all give up great expectations along the way.”

“It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.”

“Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.”

“I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.”

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

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

“Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered.”

“Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.”

“It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.”

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

“We exist as long as somebody remembers us.”

“The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.”

“I decided that my existence would be one of books and silence.”

“That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that reason alone, a book that didn't matter to anyone changed my life.”

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

“Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.”

“I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative.”

“I turned you into a stranger in order to forget you and now I'm the stranger.”

“I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.”

“Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.”