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Things Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- He didn't know whether we created God in our own image or whether God created us without quite knowing what he was doing. He believed…
- Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book…
- In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply an accident of…
- A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
- Nothing is fair. The most one can hope is for things to be logical. Justice is a rare illness in a world that is otherwise…
- Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.
- 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…
- I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.
- Few things are more deceptive than memories.
- I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and…
- Maturity is simply the process of discovering that everything you believed in when you were young is false and that all the things you refused…
- 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…
- 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…
- I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson…
- The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle