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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
Fools
Silent
Fool
Listen
Wise
Talk
Men
Cowards
Coward

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To truly hate is an art one learns with time.
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[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.
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There are worse prisons than words.
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Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.
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I think today will be the day. Today our luck will change,' I proclaimed on the wings of the first coffee of the day, pure optimism in a liquid state.
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Truth is, only the useless get to the top in this country.
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Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.
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The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.
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Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
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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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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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Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.
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