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Other Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- 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…
- We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.
- All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral…
- I looked up towards the immensity of the labyrinth. "How does one choose a single book among so many?" Isaac shrugged his shoulders. 'Some like…
- 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…
- Man...heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand...heats…
- I wondered what on earth she saw in me that could make her want to befriend me, other than a pale reflection of herself, an…
- It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.
- 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…
- Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new…
- He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or in other people...…
- Who are the lunatics? The ones who see horror in the heart of their fellow humans and search for peace at any price? Or the…
- 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…
- My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that…
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- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
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- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
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- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
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- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
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