Carlos Ruiz Zafón: Citations en anglais

Carlos Ruiz Zafón est écrivain espagnol. Citations en anglais.
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“Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón livre L'Ombre du vent

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón livre L'Ombre du vent

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“Few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later--no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover or how much we learn or forget--we will return.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón livre L'Ombre du vent

Source: La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind) (2001)

“We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón livre Le Jeu de l'ange

Source: The Angel's Game

“If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón livre L'Ombre du vent

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón livre L'Ombre du vent

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón livre L'Ombre du vent

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón livre L'Ombre du vent

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón livre Le Jeu de l'ange

Source: The Angel's Game

“One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn’t aware of it.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón livre L'Ombre du vent

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón livre L'Ombre du vent

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón livre L'Ombre du vent

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“Never trust he who trusts everyone.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón livre L'Ombre du vent

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to tell what all those who fell at his side will never be able to tell.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón livre L'Ombre du vent

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón livre L'Ombre du vent

Source: La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind) (2001)

“The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón livre Le Jeu de l'ange

Source: The Angel's Game

“When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he’s a saint or they themselves are not telling the whole story.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón livre L'Ombre du vent

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“Few things are more deceptive than memories.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón livre L'Ombre du vent

Source: The Shadow of the Wind