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Carlos Ruiz Zafon

"Some disappointments honor those who inspire them."

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Asa Don Brown

"Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity."

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Asa Don Brown

"I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect."

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Asa Don Brown

"No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem."

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Asa Don Brown

"Then he was sorry for the great fish... How many people will he feed?.. But are they worthy to eat him? No, of course, not. There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great dignity."

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Asa Don Brown

"I don't beg for those things which can be earned."

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Asa Don Brown

"Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll."

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Asa Don Brown

"You need to work even if it is a menial or dirty job, because every job is participating in the process of creation."

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Asa Don Brown

"Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity."

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Asa Don Brown

"Dignity high station or great riches are in some sort necessary to old men in order to keep the younger at a distance who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age."

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Asa Don Brown

"I left the room with silent dignity, but caught my foot in the mat."

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
"It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality."

Existence

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
"Man's meanness is a fuse in search of a flame."

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
"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 Zafon
"Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparitions. Calcutta has countless such stories hidden in its darkness, stories that nobody wants to admit they believe but which nevertheless survive in the memory of generations as the only chronicle of the past. It is as if the people who inhabit the streets, inspired by some mysterious wisdom, relalise that the true history of Calcutta has always been written in the invisible tales of its spirits and unspoken curses."

Mystery

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
"Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond."

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
"Ben invented mathematical theories that even he didn't manage to remember and wrote such bizarre tales of adventure that he ended up destroying them a week after they were finished, embarrassed at the thought that he had penned them."

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
"Man...heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand...heats up like an iron. Slowly, over a low heat, like tasty stew. But then, once she has heated up, there's no stopping her."

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
"Ignatius B. Samson, welcome to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books."

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
"Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human."

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
"A Gentleman's agreement cannot be broken without breaking the person who has entered into it."

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