What did Carlos Ruiz Zafón mean by: Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man. Carlos Ruiz Zafón Author · Spain Copy
People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too. Author, December 24, 2023January 1, 2025, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Comparison, Envy, Insecurity, 0 Carlos Ruiz Zafón Author · Spain
You end up becoming someone you see in the eyes of those you love. Author, December 24, 2023January 1, 2025, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Identity, Perception, Relationships, 0 Carlos Ruiz Zafón Author · Spain
+ Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you. Author, May 18, 2023December 25, 2024, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Perception, Reflection, Self, 0 Carlos Ruiz Zafón Author · Spain
Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love. Author, December 24, 2023January 1, 2025, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Compassion, Confusion, Love, 0 Carlos Ruiz Zafón Author · Spain
The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich. Author, December 24, 2023January 1, 2025, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Aspiration, Inequality, Social class, 0 Carlos Ruiz Zafón Author · Spain
Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch. Author, December 24, 2023January 1, 2025, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Ego, Humility, Reality, 0 Carlos Ruiz Zafón Author · Spain
That’s what happens when people reach old age; nobody remembers they’ve been bastards too. Author, December 24, 2023January 1, 2025, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Aging, Memory, Remorse, 0 Carlos Ruiz Zafón Author · Spain
It’s up to you how you waste your time and money. I’m staying here to read: life’s too short. Author, December 24, 2023January 1, 2025, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Choice, Priorities, Time, 0 Carlos Ruiz Zafón Author · Spain
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality Jean Rousset