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

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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Prejudice
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World

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... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.
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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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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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Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.
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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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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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