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Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.

Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.
– Carlos Ruiz Zafn

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  2. The city was asleep, and the bookshop felt like a boat adrift in a sea of silence and shadows. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  3. To truly hate is an art one learns with time. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  4. But I couldn’t absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned with hatred. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  5. To Senor Sempere, the best friend a book could ever have: you opened the doors to the world for me and showed me how to go through them. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  6. Every piece of that marvelous world was a silent tear. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  7. God gives us life, but the world’s landlord is the devil…. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  8. I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  9. I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  10. There are worse prisons than words. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  11. Books hold no passports. There’s only one true literary tradition: the human. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  12. Ignatius B. Samson, welcome to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  13. Don’t be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  14. nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  15. Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  16. The day I die, all that was once mine will be yours, Julián, he would say. Except my dreams. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  17. Martin, at my age, ?????cism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows’ necks. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  18. Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  19. Making money isn’t hard in itself,’ he complained. ‘What’s hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one’s life to. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  20. -Do you think it’s dirty money?-All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  21. I imagine some people, like some toys, are born defective – which I suppose makes us all broken toys, don’t you think? – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  22. Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  23. You don’t know what thirst is until you drink for the first time. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  24. If you don’t trust a novelist, who are you going to trust? – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  25. Jacinta never told Penelope that she loved her. The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  26. He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot … He found himself flying among stars and planets … – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  27. Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  28. Never trust he who trusts everyone. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  29. 1I smiled bitterly, a defeated man pitifully begging a God in whom he had never trusted. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  30. as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  31. Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn’t go away. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  32. Never trust anyone Daniel, especially the people you admire – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  33. Man’s meanness is a fuse in search of a flame. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  34. I could tell you it’s the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  35. Sometimes memories follow you wherever you go-you don’t need to take them with you. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  36. Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  37. The day I charge an unbeliever like you for the word of God will be the day I’m struck dead by lightning, and with good reason. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  38. And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  39. A secret’s worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  40. All business opportunities stem from someone else’s inability to resolve a simple and inevitable problem. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn

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