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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
Talk
Men
Cowards
Coward
Fools
Silent
Fool
Listen
Wise

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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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In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.
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Memories are worse than bullets.
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I don't care what happens in 100 years. I won't be around.
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Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.
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It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.
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somethings can only be seen in the shadows
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The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.
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The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.
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It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain, you're constantly trying to solve challenges. I think most writers enjoy the feeling of having written something, rather than the process of writing it.
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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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If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.
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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 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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God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.
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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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The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.
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I like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations.
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People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.
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