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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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God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.
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There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies the second your family. Sometimes the difference between them is hard to see, but in the end time will show you that the cards you have been dealt could always have been worse.
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... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.
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Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.
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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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There are worse prisons than words.
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That's what happens when people reach old age nobody remembers they've been bastards too.
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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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Write, he said. I'll write to you as soon as I get there, answered Julian. No. Not to me. Write books. Not letters. Write them for me, for Penelope.
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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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I leafed through the pages, inhaling the enchanted scent of promise that comes with all new books, and stopped to read the start of a sentence that caught my eye.
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I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
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The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I don't care what happens in 100 years. I won't be around.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
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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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One mustn't dream of one's future one must earn it.
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Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills. Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.
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How many lost souls do You need, Lord, to satisfy Your hunger? the hatter asked. God, in His infinite silence, looked at him without blinking.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
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