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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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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 think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.
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Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood.
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Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.
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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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... , 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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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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... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.
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It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain, you're constantly trying to solve challenges. I think most writers enjoy the feeling of having written something, rather than the process of writing it.
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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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One mustn't dream of one's future one must earn it.
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Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.
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It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.
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