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Been Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.
- It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.
- Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and…
- They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether…
- The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces like the power of lies, the greater the better.…
- 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…
- Deep down we've never been who we think we once were, and we only remember what never happened.
- That's what happens when people reach old age; nobody remembers they've been bastards too.
- I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I really wanted to write, so…
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