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A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
Novelist
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Screenwriter
Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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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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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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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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In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams.
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God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.
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