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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
Wise
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Men
Cowards
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Fools
Silent
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A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
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Where he had failed, I would triumph. Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of the labyrinth.
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I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.
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We exist as long as somebody remembers us.
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I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.
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I don't care what happens in 100 years. I won't be around.
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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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It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.
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Envy is the religion of the mediocre
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Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.
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Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.
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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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... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.
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Normal people bring children into the world we novelists bring books. We are condemned to put our whole lives into them, even though they hardly ever thank us for it. We are condemned to die in their pages and sometimes even to let our books be the ones who, in the end, will take our lives.
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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