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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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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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Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.
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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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Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.
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I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.
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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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You end up becoming someone you see in the eyes of those you love.
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As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light that filtered through the cracks or from the glass lanterns embedded in the wooden structure, floating among mirrors and shadows.
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Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.
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In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.
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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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Nothing important is learned it is simply remembered.
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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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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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somethings can only be seen in the shadows
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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
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Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
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Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.
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The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.
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Are you not tempted to create a story for which men and women would live and die, for which they would be capable of killing and allowing them to be killed, of sacrificing and condemning themselves, of handling over their souls?
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