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Carlos Ruiz Zafon

"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."

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"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."

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"If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union."

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"I didn't do this for the President. When I had this opportunity, not only was it work, but it was something that I could do, as an actor, for the victims and their families. Something I could give back."

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"The vicious circle of life is employment."

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"Work indeed has many more benefits than money."

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"Do the good work, with the resources you have."

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"It is good to work for your living."

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"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, 'We did this ourselves.'"

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"Being a father, well, I don't know if this is a change, but it makes me want to get out of here faster. Get off the clock. Just 'cause the baby is my reason for living, my reason for coming to work."

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"Hard work is what you do to make ends meet, easy work is getting others to do the hard work for you."

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"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."

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"Max had once read in one of his father's books that some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like scenes you can return to again and again and will always remember, no matter how much time goes by."
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"As I walked in the dark through the tunnels and tunnels of books, I could not help being overcome by a sense of sadness. I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever. I felt myself surrounded by millions of abandoned pages, by worlds and souls without an owner sinking in an ocean of darkness, while the world that throbbed outside the library seemed to be losing its memory, day after day, unknowingly, feeling all the wiser the more it forgot."
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"Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either."
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"You don't know what thirst is until you drink for the first time."
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"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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"Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you."
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"God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil...."
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"Never trust he who trusts everyone."
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"Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away."
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"In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody's best friend."
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