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Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
Novelist
Publicist
Screenwriter
Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Talk
Men
Cowards
Coward
Fools
Silent
Fool
Listen
Wise

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Are you not tempted to create a story for which men and women would live and die, for which they would be capable of killing and allowing them to be killed, of sacrificing and condemning themselves, of handling over their souls?
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People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.
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In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.
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somethings can only be seen in the shadows
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I knew when I was writing The Angel's Game that a lot of people would be upset that I didn't write Shadow Of The Wind 2. That's okay, that's part of the game. You do what you have to do. If they like it, great. If they don't, too bad. What are you going to do?
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We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
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My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.
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I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.
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You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.
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Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species.
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Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
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A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
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He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets.
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I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.
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To truly hate is an art one learns with time.
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Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.
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A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.
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