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To truly hate is an art one learns with time.
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
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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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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Truth is, only the useless get to the top in this country.
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Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.
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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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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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As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light that filtered through the cracks or from the glass lanterns embedded in the wooden structure, floating among mirrors and shadows.
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We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.
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Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood.
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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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It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.
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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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... , listening to the storm outside as it left the city, knowing that I was going to lose her but also knowing that, for a few minutes, we had belonged to one another, and to nobody else.
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There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.
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Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened.
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We all give up great expectations along the way.
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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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Childhood devotions make unfaithful and fickle lovers.
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One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.
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