Carlos Ruiz Zafón citáty

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„Ve chvíli, kdy přemýšlíš nad tím, zda máš někoho ráda, už jsi ho navždy přestala milovat.“

„Mohla bych ti popsat o čem to (kniha) je, ale je to stejné, jako bych ti popisovala katedrálu s tím, že je to spousta kamene a nahoře je věž.“

„Kniha je zrcadlem, v němž spatříme pouze to, co v sobě nosíme.“

„Dárek se dává proto, že dělá potěšení dárci. Ne proto, že by si ho obdarovaný zasloužil.“

„Mluviti přísluší hlupákům, mlčeti zbabělcům a naslouchati mudrcům.“

„Neznámý člověk nás vidí takové, jací jsme, a ne takové, jaké by nás chtěl mít.“

„Před rakví všichni vidíme jen to dobré anebo jen to, co chceme vidět.“

„Tajemství má takovou cenu jako ti, před nimiž je máme uchránit.“

„Nevěř těm, kterým všichni věří.“

“That day was turning out to be longer than”

“Nothing is fair. The most one can hope is for things to be logical. Justice is a rare illness in a world that is otherwise a picture of health.”

“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.”

“It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.”

“Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.”

“You end up becoming someone you see in the eyes of those you love.”

“Deep down we've never been who we think we once were, and we only remember what never happened.”

“You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.”

“We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music”

“Coincidences are the scars of fate.”

“May I offer you something? A small glass of cyanide?”

“People only disappear when they have somewhere to go”

“You women listen more to your heart and less to all the nonsense. That's why you live longer.”

“The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.”

“Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself and one's limitations. To achieve anything you must first have ambition and then talent, knowledge, and finally the opportunity.”

“One mustn't dream of one's future; one must earn it.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“Destiny doesn't do home visits… you have to go for it yourself.”

“Maturity is simply the process of discovering that everything you believed in when you were young is false and that all the things you refused to believe in turn out to be true.”

“Waiting is the rust of the soul.”

“It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.”

“I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.”

“There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness.”

“It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality.”

“And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything.”

“Everything can be forgiven in this world, save telling the truth.”

“Whether we realise it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favouring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act.”

“A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.”

“Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood.”