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"Authentic people are instantly more likable and trustworthy, which makes building rapport with them a pleasure."
"Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness."
Explore more quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
"He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or in other people… I got the feeling that Julián was living in the past, locked in his memories. Julián lived within himself, for his books and inside them—a comfortable prison of his own design."
"You say this as if you envied him."
"There are worse prisons than words."
"Whether we realize it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favoring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act. Nothing arouses a passion for dogma more than a good antagonist. And the more unlikely, the better. It's difficult to hate an idea. It's much easier to hate someone with a recognizable face whom we can blame for everything that makes us feel uncomfortable. It doesn't have to be an individual character. It could be a nation, a race, a group anything."
Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermín had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills. 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.
"I imagine some people, like some toys, are born defective - which I suppose makes us all broken toys, don't you think?"
"I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets."
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