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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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Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
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The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.
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We exist as long as somebody remembers us.
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Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.
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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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The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.
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There are worse prisons than words.
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Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content. We only accept as true what can be narrated.
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I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.
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Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.
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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.
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... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.
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Envy is the religion of the mediocre
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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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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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