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1. "I've always ignored the labels people put on things." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
2. "With 'The Angel's Game', there was a lot of pressure from the expectations - expectations from the book industry and from readers; it's natural." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
3. "The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
4. "Una vez busqué en un diccionario el término "hipocondríaco" y lesaqué una copia.-No sé si lo sabías, pero tu biografía viene en el Diccionario de la RealAcademia le anuncié.Echó un vistazo a la fotocopia y me lanzó una mirada de alcayata.-Prueba a buscar en la "i" de idiota y verás que no soy el únicofamoso replicó JF." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
5. "You only love truly once in your lifetime, even if you aren't always aware of it." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
6. "You have more zeal than good taste, Martín. The disease afflicting you has a name, and that is Grand Guignol: it does to drama what syphilis does to your privates. Getting it might be pleasurable, but from then on it's all downhill." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
7. "…Permaneció al lado de sus amigos porque pensaba que ésa era su obligación. Le mató la lealtad a gentes, cuando les llegó la hora, le traicionaron. Nunca te fíes de nadie, Daniel, especialmente de la gente a la que admiras. Ésos son los que te pegarán las peores puñaladas…" ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
8. "We set off towards the square, where a knot of old folks hovered around the local pigeon community, their lives reduced to a ritual of spreading crumbs and waiting." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
9. "This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
10. "Why is it that the less on has to say the more one says it in the most pompous and pedantic way possible?" ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
11. "I libri sono specchi: riflettono ciò che abbiamo dentro." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
12. "-Godigi sakot, es par sievietem neko daudz nezinu. - Zinat nezina neviens: ne Freids, ne ari vins pašas, bet tas ir tapat ka ar elektribu, nevajag zinat, ka ta darbojas, lai dabutu pa pirkstiem." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
13. "Why is it that all wars are won by bankers?" ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
14. "Recorrí pasillos y galerías en espiral pobladas por cientos, miles de tomos que parecían saber más acerca de mí que yo de ellos. Al poco, me asaltó la idea de que tras la cubierta de cada uno de aquellos libros se abría un universo infinito por explorar y de que, más allá de aquellos muros, el mundo dejaba pasar la vida en tardes de fútbol y seriales de radio, satisfecho con ver hasta allí donde alcanza su ombligo y poco más. Quizá fue aquel pensamiento, quizá el azar o su pariente de gala, el destino, pero en aquel mismo instante supe que ya había elegido el libro que iba a adoptar. O quizá debiera decir el libro que me iba a adoptar a mí. Se asomaba tímidamente en el extremo de una estantería, encuadernado en piel de color vino y susurrando su título en letras doradas que ardían a la luz que destilaba la cúpula desde lo alto. Me acerqué hasta él y acaricié las palabras con la yema de los dedos, leyendo en silencio.La Sombra del VientoJULIÁN CARAX." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
15. "Minden itt látható könyvnek lelke van. Mindegyikben benne rejtozik annak a lelke, aki írta, és mindazoké, akik olvasták, átélték és álmodtak róla. Ahányszor csak valaki a kezébe vesz egy könyvet, s tekintetével átfutja lapjait, a könyv szelleme újraéled, erore kap. (...) Az itt található könyvek mindegyikérol elmondható, hogy egyszer a legjobb barátja volt valakinek." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
16. "Tell me Ignatius B., who has broken your heart and left you so angry?" ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
17. "...a man who invented his life story day after day." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
18. "When we feel like victims, all our actions and beliefs are legitimised, however questionable they may be. Our opponents, or simply our neighbours, stop sharing common ground with us and become our enemies. We stop being aggressors and become defenders. The envy, greed or resentment that motivates us becomes sanctified, because we tell ourselves we're acting in self-defence. Evil, menace, those are always the preserve of the other." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
19. "Nobody can feel more compassion for a fibber than another fibber." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
20. "As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light that filtered through the cracks or from the glass lanterns embedded in the wooden structure, floating among mirrors and shadows." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
21. "Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war.... We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've learned about ourselves and about others, is an illusion, a passing nightmare. 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." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
22. "Every labyrinth has its minotaur" ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
23. "Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
24. "Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
25. "The city was asleep, and the bookshop felt like a boat adrift in a sea of silence and shadows." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
26. "Levanté la mirada y me quedé mudo. Un colosal laberinto de puentes, pasajes y estantes repletos de cientos de miles de libros se alzaba formando una gigantesca biblioteca de perspectivas imposibles. Una madeja de túneles atravesaba la inmensa estructura que parecia ascender en espiral hacia una gran cúpula de cristal de la que se filtraban cortinas de luz y tinieblas. Pude ver algunas siluetas aisladas que recorrían pasarelas y escalinatas o examinaban con detalle los pasadizos de aquella catedral hecha de libros y palabras." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
27. "A remények, akár szépek voltak, akár nem, ritkán váltak valóra az én világomban." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
28. "Az emlékek olykor pusztítóbbak, mint a puskagolyó." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
29. "The old woman smiled sweetly at Fermin. My friend stroked her face and her forehead. She appreciated the touch of another skin like a purring cat. I felt a lump in my throat.'A stupid question, wasn't it?' Fermin went on. 'Whatyou'd like is to be out there, dancing a foxtrot. You look like a dancer; everyone must tell you that.'I had never seen him treat anyone with such delicacy, not even Bernarda. His words were pure flattery, but the tone and expression on his face were sincere.'What pretty things you say,' she murmured in a voice that was broken from not having had anyone to speak to or anything to say." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
30. "Un secreto vale lo que aquellos de quienes tenemos que guardarlo." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
31. "And as he watched them walk out of the orphanage, Thomas Carter would think of their lives as the blank pages of a book in which he had written the initial chapters of a story he would never be allowed to finish." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
32. "Gli stolti parlano, i codardi tacciono, i saggi ascoltano" ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
33. "El mal presupone una determinación moral, intención y cierto pensamiento. El imbécil o cafre no se para a pensar ni a razonar. Actúa por instinto, como bestia de establo, convencido de que hace el bien, de que siempre tiene la razón y orgulloso de ir jodiendo, con perdón, a todo aquel que se le antoja diferente a é mismo, bien sea por color, por creencia, por idioma, por nacionalidad o, como en el caso de don Federico, por sus hábitos de ocio. Lo que hace falta en el mundo es más gente mala de verdad y menos cazurros limítrofes." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
34. "Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
35. "Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves. But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
36. "somethings can only be seen in the shadows" ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
37. "vous avez poison au coeur" ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
38. "In those days, Christmas still retained a certain aura of magic and mystery. The powdery light of winter, the hopeful expressions of people who lived among shadows and silence, lent that setting a slight air of promise in which at least children and those who had learned the art of forgetting could still believe." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
39. "Obicajno je tako, da vec ko ima nekdo daru, bolj dvomi o tem, ali ga ima. In obratno." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
40. "-Do you think it's dirty money?-All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
41. "Nulla alimenta l'oblio più di una guerra, Daniel.Le guerre negano la memoria, dissuadendoci dall'indagare sulle loro radici, finché non si è spenta la voce di chi può raccontarle. Allora ritornano, con un altro nome ed un altro volto, a distruggere quel poco che avevano risparmiato." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
42. "A katonaság, a házasság, az egyház és a pénzvilág: az Apokalipszis négy lovasa." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
43. "Tajna vrijedi koliko i oni od kojih je moramo kriti." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
44. "the day women are allowed to learn to read and write the world will become ungovernable." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
45. "Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
46. "Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
47. "Whether we realise it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favouring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
48. "I leafed through the pages, inhaling the enchanted scent of promise that comes with all new books, and stopped to read the start of a sentence that caught my eye." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
49. "Pocas cosas marcan tanto a un lector como el primer libro que realmente se abre camino hasta su corazón. Aquellas primeras imágenes, el eco de esas palabras que creemos haber dejado atrás, nos acompañan toda la vida y esconden un palacio en nuestra memoria al que, tarde o temprano –no importa cuántos libros leamos, cuántos mundos descubramos, cuánto aprendamos u olvidemos–, vamos a regresar." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
50. "Write," he said."I'll write to you as soon as I get there," answered Julian."No. Not to me. Write books. Not letters. Write them for me, for Penelope." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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