Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón is a Spanish novelist.
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I lent my ear to the patient's lips - so close that I could feel his fetid, warm breath on my skin. "Can you tell me where I can find Señora Jucinta Coronado?" I asked for the last time. I was afraid he'd bite me. Instead he emitted a violently loud...

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There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.

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

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Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.

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There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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.

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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 no...

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.

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One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn’t aware of it.

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They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.

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I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.

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Pocas cosas engañan más que los recuerdos.

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Few things are more deceptive than memories.

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Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.

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Lo difícil no es ganar dinero sin más,-se lamentaba-. Lo difícil es ganarlo haciendo algo a lo que valga la pena dedicarle la vida.

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I looked at the group of human remains that languished in the corner and smiled at them. It occurred to me that their very presence was testimony to the moral emptiness of the universe and the mechanical brutality with which it destroys the parts it ...

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Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills. Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, ...

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Las estadísticas lo demuestran: más gente muere en la cama que en la trinchera.

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Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.

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I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.

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In the haunted shade of the Ateneo, her hands wrote a curse on my skin that was to hound me for years.

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Author Bio

  • NameCarlos Ruiz Zafon
  • DescriptionSpanish writer
  • BornSeptember 25, 1964
  • CountrySpain
  • ProfessionWriter