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There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
Novelist
Publicist
Screenwriter
Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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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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There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.
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While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.
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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 could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.
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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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I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.
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Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most.
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A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared.
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The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.
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Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.
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This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.
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I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
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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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For some reason, I never felt the need to have kids. My wife feels the same. We don't feel a void. I don't think they would give my life meaning. I do think of the books as my children, though. Whatever is inside of me, I put into my books.
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Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.
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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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She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.
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I don't care what happens in 100 years. I won't be around.
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I knew when I was writing The Angel's Game that a lot of people would be upset that I didn't write Shadow Of The Wind 2. That's okay, that's part of the game. You do what you have to do. If they like it, great. If they don't, too bad. What are you going to do?
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