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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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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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I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
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... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.
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Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
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Normal people bring children into the world we novelists bring books. We are condemned to put our whole lives into them, even though they hardly ever thank us for it. We are condemned to die in their pages and sometimes even to let our books be the ones who, in the end, will take our lives.
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It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.
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Life had taught her that we all require big and small lies in order to survive, just as much as we need air. She used to say that if during one single day, from dawn to dusk, we could see the naked reality of the world, and of ourselves, we would either take our own lives or lose our minds.
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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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There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.
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A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.
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We exist as long as somebody remembers us.
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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
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Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.
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God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.
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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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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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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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Men are like chestnuts they sell in the street: they're all hot and they all smell good when you buy them, but when you take them out of the paper cone you realise that most of them are rotten inside.
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I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.
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Nothing important is learned it is simply remembered.
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