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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
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The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.
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All I know is that once Julián told the kids in the building that he had a sister only he could see. He said she came out of mirrors as if she were made of thin air and that she lived with Satan himself in a palace at the bottom of a lake.
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Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.
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In those days, Christmas still retained a certain aura of magic and mystery. The powdery light of winter, the hopeful expressions of people who lived among shadows and silence, lent that setting a slight air of promise in which at least children and those who had learned the art of forgetting could still believe.
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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.
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None of us are what we once were.
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To truly hate is an art one learns with time.
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It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
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Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.
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This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.
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A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.
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Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late.
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I looked up towards the immensity of the labyrinth. How does one choose a single book among so many? Isaac shrugged his shoulders. 'Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person...destiny, in other words.
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That's what happens when people reach old age nobody remembers they've been bastards too.
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Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
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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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Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.
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