"The only use for military service is that……" — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
"The only use for military service is that it reveals the number of morons in the population," he would remark. "And that can be discovered in the first two weeks; there's no need for two years. Army, Marriage, the Church and Banking: the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Yes, go on, laugh."
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241 Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.
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