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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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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.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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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Truth is, only the useless get to the top in this country.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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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I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that? “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means - be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our own lives or the absence of meaning.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
