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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
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Screenwriter
Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
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Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened.
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Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.
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I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
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Why is it that all wars are won by bankers?
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Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need 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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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
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... , listening to the storm outside as it left the city, knowing that I was going to lose her but also knowing that, for a few minutes, we had belonged to one another, and to nobody else.
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One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.
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All I know is that once Julián told the kids in the building that he had a sister only he could see. He said she came out of mirrors as if she were made of thin air and that she lived with Satan himself in a palace at the bottom of a lake.
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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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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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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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A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared.
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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I leafed through the pages, inhaling the enchanted scent of promise that comes with all new books, and stopped to read the start of a sentence that caught my eye.
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The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.
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Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.
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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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