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A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
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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He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets.
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Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.
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Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.
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Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
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It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
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A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
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To truly hate is an art one learns with time.
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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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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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As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections.
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Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
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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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I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.
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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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[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.
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The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel.
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