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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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People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
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It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.
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It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain, you're constantly trying to solve challenges. I think most writers enjoy the feeling of having written something, rather than the process of writing it.
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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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It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.
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You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.
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Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
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This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.
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While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.
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Childhood devotions make unfaithful and fickle lovers.
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There are worse prisons than words.
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People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.
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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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Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.
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Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.
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I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.
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We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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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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The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.
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