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Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
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
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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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A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared.
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My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.
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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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My wife and I were never happy here. Spain can be narrow-minded, and provincial. In LA you don't have to justify yourself. I think I will leave here again soon and move back there.
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It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
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We had yet to learn that the Devil created youth so that we could make our mistakes, and that God established maturity and old age so that we could pay for them.
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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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God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.
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While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.
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You end up becoming someone you see in the eyes of those you love.
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None of us are what we once were.
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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
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Men are like chestnuts they sell in the street: they're all hot and they all smell good when you buy them, but when you take them out of the paper cone you realise that most of them are rotten inside.
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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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Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.
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There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.
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Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives 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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Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.
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