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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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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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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 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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The teachers tried everything, even pleading, but Tomas was in the habit of addressing them only in Latin, a language he spoke with papal fluency and in which he did not stammer. Sooner or later they all resigned in despair, fearing he might be possessed: he might be spouting demonic instructions in Aramaic at them, for all they knew.
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Life had taught her that we all require big and small lies in order to survive, just as much as we need air. She used to say that if during one single day, from dawn to dusk, we could see the naked reality of the world, and of ourselves, we would either take our own lives or lose our minds.
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This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.
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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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Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.
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People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.
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Waiting is the rust of the soul.
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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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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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Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.
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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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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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It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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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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Envy is the religion of the mediocre
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The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.
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