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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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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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Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
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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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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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Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
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Envy is the religion of the mediocre
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It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
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Waiting is the rust of the soul.
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They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.
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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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Are you not tempted to create a story for which men and women would live and die, for which they would be capable of killing and allowing them to be killed, of sacrificing and condemning themselves, of handling over their souls?
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Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
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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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The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.
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God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.
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