They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón


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He (Intellectuals) claims that label to compensate for his own inadequacies. It's as old as that saying: tell me what you boast of and I'll tell you what you lack. Our daily bread. The incompetent always present themselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as excessively devout, usurers as benefactors, the small-minded as patriots, the arrogant as humble, the vulgar as elegant and the feeble-minded as intellectual.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón


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It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means - be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our own lives or the absence of meaning.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón


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Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Stichwörter: loneliness



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This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Stichwörter: stupidity



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

Carlos Ruiz Zafón


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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


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

Carlos Ruiz Zafón


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Don Basilio was a forbidding-looking man with a bushy mustache who did not suffer fools and who subscribed to the theory that the liberal use of adverbs and adjectives was the mark of a pervert or someone with a vitamin deficiency.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón


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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.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón


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