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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.
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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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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Where he had failed, I would triumph. Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of the labyrinth.
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Nothing important is learned it is simply remembered.
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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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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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I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.
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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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