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Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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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
Fool
Listen
Wise
Talk
Men
Cowards
Coward
Fools
Silent

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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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People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
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People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.
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Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
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After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels.
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For some reason, I never felt the need to have kids. My wife feels the same. We don't feel a void. I don't think they would give my life meaning. I do think of the books as my children, though. Whatever is inside of me, I put into my books.
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One mustn't dream of one's future one must earn it.
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... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.
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I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.
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A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.
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Why is it that all wars are won by bankers?
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It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.
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Truth is, only the useless get to the top in this country.
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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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Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.
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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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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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Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.
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