Quotes from Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Las certezas reconfortan, pero sólo se aprende dudando.

Sigurno ste primetili da nemamo struju, Oskare. Mi zapravo ne verujemo mnogo u postignu?a savremene nauke. Na kraju krajeva, kakva je to nauka koja je kadra da ?oveka spusti na Mesec, a nije u stanju da spusti komad hleba na trpezu svakog ljudskog bi?a? Možda problem nije u nauci, negu u onima koji odlu?uju o tome kako da se ona primeni, primetio sam.

Quando cheguei à rua ainda levava o seu rosto,a sua voz e o seu cheiro cravados na alma.

Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections.

Marina mi-a zis odat? c? nu ne aducem aminte decat ceea ce nicicând nu s-a petrecut.

Nulla alimenta l'oblio più di una guerra, Daniel. Le guerre negano la memoria, dissuadendoci dall'indagare sulle loro radici, finché non si è spenta la voce di chi può raccontarle. Allora ritornano, con un altro nome ed un altro volto, a distruggere quel poco che avevano risparmiato.

Što ?e ti sva geografija, trigonometrija i aritmetika svijeta ako ne nau?iš misliti svojom glavom? To te ne nau?e ni u jednoj školi. Nije u programu.

Look, Daniel, at my age either you begin to see things for what they are or you're pretty much done for. Only three or four things are worth living for; the rest is manure

Da ljudi misle ?etvrtinu onoga što govore, ovaj bi svijet bio raj.

It's the only thing that brings us together now, you see. Memories. We make so many mistakes in life, young lady, but we only realize this when old age creeps up on us.

El amor es la única piedra que siempre tropieza con el mismo hombre

Llevamos el circo en la sangre.

Zavist je slijepac koji ti želi iskopati o?i.

La comedia nos enseña que la vida no hay que tomarla en serio y la tragedia nos enseña lo que pasa cuando no hacemos caso de lo que la comedia nos enseña.

Put prema paklu poplo?an je dobrim namjerama.

Mladost je hirovita djevojka. Ne znamo je shvatiti ni cijeniti dok ne oti?e s drugim i više se nikad ne vrati...

Are you an idiot?' she asked, in perfect Spanish. 'I'm in training,' I admitted.

Dice el proverbio que un hombre debe caminar mientras todavía tiene piernas, hablar mientras todavía tiene voz y soñar mientras todavía conserva la inocencia, porque tarde o temprano ya no podrá mantenerse en pie, ya no tendrá aliento y no anhelará más sueño que la noche eterna del olvido. Con

La paciencia es la madre de la ciencia

But you're the man, and you must take the lead." It was all beginning to look pretty grim. "The lead? Me?" "What do you expect? One has to pay some price for being able to piss standing up.

KeÅŸke her ÅŸey yüzdeki bir s?yr?k kadar az ac?tsa...

We only remember what never happened.

The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.' I

Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our 'ethical behavior,'" he argued. "It's pure biology.