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We exist as long as somebody remembers us.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
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Barcelona
Spain
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There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.
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Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.
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-Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.
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Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
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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 talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
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He didn't know whether we created God in our own image or whether God created us without quite knowing what he was doing. He believed that God, or whatever brought us here, lives in each of our deeds, in each of our words, and manifests himself in all those things that show us to be more than mere figures of clay.
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You're as white as a nun's buttock. Are you all right?
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Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.
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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
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She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.
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Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.
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. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that? “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.
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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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It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
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Childhood devotions make unfaithful and fickle lovers.
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Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late.
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When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.
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