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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
Listen
Wise
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Men
Cowards
Coward
Fools
Silent
Fool

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The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.
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Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
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In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.
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I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.
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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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Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
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Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.
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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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Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
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The teachers tried everything, even pleading, but Tomas was in the habit of addressing them only in Latin, a language he spoke with papal fluency and in which he did not stammer. Sooner or later they all resigned in despair, fearing he might be possessed: he might be spouting demonic instructions in Aramaic at them, for all they knew.
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People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
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Why is it that all wars are won by bankers?
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They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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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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One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.
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