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You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.
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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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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Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them.
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Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.
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Childhood devotions make unfaithful and fickle lovers.
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Nothing important is learned it is simply remembered.
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The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.
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Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.
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Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
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The rain was still crashing down, angrily machine-gunning the large windows it poured through the gutters up in the tower and funneled along the flat roof, sounding like footsteps on the ceiling.
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It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
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Who are the lunatics? The ones who see horror in the heart of their fellow humans and search for peace at any price? Or the ones who pretend they don't see what's going on around them? The world belongs either to lunatics or hypocrites. There are no other races on this earth. You must choose which one to belong to.
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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.
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I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.
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We had yet to learn that the Devil created youth so that we could make our mistakes, and that God established maturity and old age so that we could pay for them.
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My wife and I were never happy here. Spain can be narrow-minded, and provincial. In LA you don't have to justify yourself. I think I will leave here again soon and move back there.
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When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.
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Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.
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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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A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
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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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