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The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
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Barcelona
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That's what happens when people reach old age nobody remembers they've been bastards too.
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It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.
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Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.
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It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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Truth is, only the useless get to the top in this country.
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The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.
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People might not agree with me, but I think a woman should have a feminine shape, something you can get your hands on. You, on the other hand, look like you might be partial to the skinny type, a point of view I fully respect, don't misunderstand me.
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God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.
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I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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Envy is the religion of the mediocre
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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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As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light that filtered through the cracks or from the glass lanterns embedded in the wooden structure, floating among mirrors and shadows.
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Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
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The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.
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We had yet to learn that the Devil created youth so that we could make our mistakes, and that God established maturity and old age so that we could pay for them.
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Childhood devotions make unfaithful and fickle lovers.
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Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species.
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You're as white as a nun's buttock. Are you all right?
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Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.
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