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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
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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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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Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.
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A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
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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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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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Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.
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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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somethings can only be seen in the shadows
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... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.
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Childhood devotions make unfaithful and fickle lovers.
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A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared.
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Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.
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God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.
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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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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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[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.
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-Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.
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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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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.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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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