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People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
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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That's what happens when people reach old age nobody remembers they've been bastards too.
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Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.
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People might not agree with me, but I think a woman should have a feminine shape, something you can get your hands on. You, on the other hand, look like you might be partial to the skinny type, a point of view I fully respect, don't misunderstand me.
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It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
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They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.
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Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.
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I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.
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Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species.
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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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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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We all give up great expectations along the way.
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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 swim against the tide because I like to annoy.
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Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.
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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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There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honourable than to be someone.
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