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

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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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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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They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.
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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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They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.
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Why is it that all wars are won by bankers?
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Childhood devotions make unfaithful and fickle lovers.
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You end up becoming someone you see in the eyes of those you love.
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Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.
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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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Where he had failed, I would triumph. Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of the labyrinth.
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In those days, Christmas still retained a certain aura of magic and mystery. The powdery light of winter, the hopeful expressions of people who lived among shadows and silence, lent that setting a slight air of promise in which at least children and those who had learned the art of forgetting could still believe.
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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And its a woman whos extremely vain.
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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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None of us are what we once were.
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I like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations.
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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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There are people you remember and people you dream of.
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Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.
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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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People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
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