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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.
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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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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A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.
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Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.
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Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
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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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-Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.
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Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them.
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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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We exist as long as somebody remembers us.
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Who are the lunatics? The ones who see horror in the heart of their fellow humans and search for peace at any price? Or the ones who pretend they don't see what's going on around them? The world belongs either to lunatics or hypocrites. There are no other races on this earth. You must choose which one to belong to.
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Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.
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I like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations.
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Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.
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It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.
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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory
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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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