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In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.

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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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There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.
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Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.
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Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills. Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.
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People might not agree with me, but I think a woman should have a feminine shape, something you can get your hands on. You, on the other hand, look like you might be partial to the skinny type, a point of view I fully respect, don't misunderstand me.
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To truly hate is an art one learns with time.
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The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.
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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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Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
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Waiting is the rust of the soul.
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Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
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She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.
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The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.
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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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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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I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.
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Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species.
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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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Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.
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Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.
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