Carlos Ruiz Zafón: Zitate auf Englisch

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“Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón buch Das Spiel des Engels

Quelle: The Angel's Game

“Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it in the most pompous and pedantic way possible?… Is it to fool the world or just to fool themselves?”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón buch Das Spiel des Engels

Quelle: The Angel's Game

“Patience is the mother of all virtues and the godmother of madness”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón buch Marina

Quelle: Marina

“While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón buch Der Schatten des Windes

Quelle: The Shadow of the Wind

“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 this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón buch Der Schatten des Windes

Quelle: The Shadow of the Wind

“A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón buch Das Spiel des Engels

Quelle: The Angel's Game

“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 the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón buch Der Schatten des Windes

Quelle: The Shadow of the Wind

“You can come share a tasty meal of bread, raisins, and fresh cheese. With that, andanyone can live to a hundred.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón buch Der Schatten des Windes

Quelle: The Shadow of the Wind

“Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón buch The Midnight Palace

Quelle: The Midnight Palace

“I quarreled with every word, every phrase and expression, every image and letter as if they were the last I was ever going to write. I wrote and rewrote every line as if my life depended on it, and then rewrote it again.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón buch Das Spiel des Engels

Quelle: The Angel's Game

“Disarmed, I realized how easily you can lose all animosity toward someone you've deemed your enemy as soon as that person stops behaving as such.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón buch Der Schatten des Windes

Quelle: The Shadow of the Wind

“Poetry aside, a religion is really a moral code that is expressed through legends, myths, or any type of literary device in order to establish a system of beliefs, values, and rules with which to regulate a culture or a society.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón buch Das Spiel des Engels

Quelle: The Angel's Game

“Old age is the lubricant of belief. When death knocks at the door, skepticism flies out the window. A serious cardiovascular fright and a person will even believe in Little Red Riding Hood.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón buch Das Spiel des Engels

Quelle: The Angel's Game

“I hoped my absence made them happy or at least made them forget that they weren't happy and never will be.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón buch Das Spiel des Engels

Quelle: The Angel's Game

“Hope is cruel and has no consequence”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón buch Der Schatten des Windes

The Shadow of the Wind

“Now I know I have already lost you. I have lost everything. Even so, I can't let you go forever and allow you to forget me without letting you know that I don't bear you any grudge, that I knew it from the start, I knew that I was going to lose you and that you would never see in me what I see in you. I want you to know that I loved you from the very first day and that I still love you, now more than ever, even if you don't want me to.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón buch Der Schatten des Windes

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

“Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón buch Der Schatten des Windes

Quelle: The Shadow of the Wind

“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.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón buch Das Spiel des Engels

Quelle: The Angel's Game