Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Carlos Ruiz Zafón was a Spanish novelist known for his 2001 novel La sombra del viento. The novel sold 15 million copies and was winner of numerous awards; it was included in the list of the one hundred best books in Spanish in the last twenty-five years, made in 2007 by eighty-one Latin American and Spanish writers and critics.
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"Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink."
View quote details →"We are willing to believe anything other than the truth."
View quote details →"Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive."
View quote details →"Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen."
View quote details →"Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered."
View quote details →"Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them."
View quote details →"The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich."
View quote details →"Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them."
View quote details →"Never trust he who trusts everyone."
View quote details →"Few things are more deceptive than memories."
View quote details →"There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite."
View quote details →"So long as we are being remembered, we remain alive."
View quote details →"We all give up great expectations along the way."
View quote details →"Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away."
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