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Soul Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

20 Soul quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon has a way of turning the intangible into something you can almost feel. In this set of twenty reflections, his words trace the hidden currents that shape our inner lives, offering a quiet, haunting perspective on what it means to be alive.

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Waiting is the rust of the soul.

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People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.

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

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Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in…

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“He loved her with all his soul, but in his own way, which was the correct way.”

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Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and…

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The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner…

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“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who…

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“Every book, every volume that you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those…

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His soul is in his stories. I once asked him who inspired him to create his characters, and his answer was no…

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Are you not tempted to create a story for which men and women would live and die, for which they would be…

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How many lost souls do You need, Lord, to satisfy Your hunger? the hatter asked. God, in His infinite silence, looked at…

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If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over…

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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…

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I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in…

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A good father. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A man capable of listening, of leading and respecting…

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“This is a place of mystery, Daniel, a sanctuary. Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of…

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I would like to save all books, those that are banned, those that are burned, or forgotten with contempt by the mandarins…

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Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who…

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A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a story.…

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“Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke…

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“I carried the trace of her lips, of her breath on my skin through streets full of faceless people escaping from offices and shops.”

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“Nekada davno, u djetinjstvu, možda is toga što sam odrastao među knjigama i knjižarima, odlučio sam da želim postati pisac i živjeti životom punim…

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“nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds.”

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People might not agree with me, but I think a woman should have a feminine shape, something you can get your hands on. You,…

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“But I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned…

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“Wise men think and speak alike.”

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“Time plays for the other team.”

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Once I'd worked out that I couldn't possibly expect people to enjoy a monstrous, 3000-page book, I realised I could in fact create a…

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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and…

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Waiting is the rust of the soul.

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“The main pillar of organized religion, with few exceptions, is the subjugation, repression, even the annulment of women in the group. Woman must accept…

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“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…

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

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“Darwin was a dreamer, I can assure you. No evolution or anything of the sort. For every one who can reason, I have to…

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