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People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.
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
Spain
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I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.
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Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened.
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Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most.
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The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.
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None of us are what we once were.
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Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content. We only accept as true what can be narrated.
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Where he had failed, I would triumph. Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of the labyrinth.
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I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.
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... , listening to the storm outside as it left the city, knowing that I was going to lose her but also knowing that, for a few minutes, we had belonged to one another, and to nobody else.
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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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Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
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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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Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late.
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My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.
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The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel.
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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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I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.
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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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You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.
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