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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
Listen
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Cowards
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Fools
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There are worse prisons than words.
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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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Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.
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A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared.
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A good father. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A man capable of listening, of leading and respecting a child, and not of drowning his own defects in him. Someone whom a child will not only love because he's his father, but will also admire for the person he is. Someone he would want to grow up to resemble.
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We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.
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The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.
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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And its a woman whos extremely vain.
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Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.
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There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.
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You end up becoming someone you see in the eyes of those you love.
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Childhood devotions make unfaithful and fickle lovers.
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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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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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Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.
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People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.
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Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.
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I looked up towards the immensity of the labyrinth. How does one choose a single book among so many? Isaac shrugged his shoulders. 'Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person...destiny, in other words.
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