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It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.

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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
Wind
Story
Dream
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Love
Hatred
Shadow
Dreams

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Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
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Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.
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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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He didn't know whether we created God in our own image or whether God created us without quite knowing what he was doing. He believed that God, or whatever brought us here, lives in each of our deeds, in each of our words, and manifests himself in all those things that show us to be more than mere figures of clay.
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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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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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Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.
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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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It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
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It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.
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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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Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
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Who are the lunatics? The ones who see horror in the heart of their fellow humans and search for peace at any price? Or the ones who pretend they don't see what's going on around them? The world belongs either to lunatics or hypocrites. There are no other races on this earth. You must choose which one to belong to.
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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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Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.
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He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets.
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Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.
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In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.
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