Top 200 Carlos Ruiz Zafón Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.”

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52. “Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it’s an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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

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54. “You end up becoming someone you see in the eyes of those you love.”

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55. “I’ve always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.”

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56. “My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.”

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57. “His soul is in his stories. I once asked him who inspired him to create his characters, and his answer was no one. That all his characters were himself.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

58. “You know who your true friends are when things go wrong for you, but the opposite is also true. When things go well, the people who really love you are happy.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

59. “I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.”

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60. “Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.”

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61. “I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.”

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62. “There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies; the second your family. Sometimes the difference between them is hard to see, but in the end time will show you that the cards you have been dealt could always have been worse.”

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63. “Army, Marriage, the Church, and Baking: the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse. Fermin Romero de Torres – The Shadow of the Wind.”

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64. “I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.”

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65. “I’ve always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.”

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66. “People talk too much. Humans aren’t descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.”

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67. “Every labyrinth has its minotaur.”

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68. “Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species.”

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

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70. “Thunder and lightning, it’s like the end of the world.”

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

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72. “People only disappear when they have somewhere to go.”

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73. “None of us are what we once were.”

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74. “Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they’re there to make our most absurd dreams come true.”

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75. “I knew when I was writing The Angel’s Game that a lot of people would be upset that I didn’t write Shadow Of The Wind 2. That’s okay, that’s part of the game. You do what you have to do. If they like it, great. If they don’t, too bad. What are you going to do?”

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76. “Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.”

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77. “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.”

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

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79. “If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.”

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80. “It’s hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain, you’re constantly trying to solve challenges. I think most writers enjoy the feeling of having written something, rather than the process of writing it.”

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81. “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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82. “You women listen more to your heart and less to all the nonsense. That’s why you live longer.”

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83. “Why is it that all wars are won by bankers?”

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84. “She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.”

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85. “As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections.”

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86. “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.”

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87. “I quarreled with every word, every phrase and expression, every image and letter as if they were the last I was ever going to write. I wrote and rewrote every line as if my life depended on it, and then rewrote it again.”

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88. “We had yet to learn that the Devil created youth so that we could make our mistakes, and that God established maturity and old age so that we could pay for them...”

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89. “How many lost souls do You need, Lord, to satisfy Your hunger? the hatter asked. God, in His infinite silence, looked at him without blinking.”

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90. “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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91. “I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.”

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92. “Waiting is the rust of the soul.”

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93. “Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.”

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

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95. “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.”

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96. “The words with which a child’s heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.”

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

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

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99. “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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100. “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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