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There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
Novelist
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Screenwriter
Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.
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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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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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People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.
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The teachers tried everything, even pleading, but Tomas was in the habit of addressing them only in Latin, a language he spoke with papal fluency and in which he did not stammer. Sooner or later they all resigned in despair, fearing he might be possessed: he might be spouting demonic instructions in Aramaic at them, for all they knew.
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Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.
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I knew when I was writing The Angel's Game that a lot of people would be upset that I didn't write Shadow Of The Wind 2. That's okay, that's part of the game. You do what you have to do. If they like it, great. If they don't, too bad. What are you going to do?
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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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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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Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most.
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I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
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You're as white as a nun's buttock. Are you all right?
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You end up becoming someone you see in the eyes of those you love.
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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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A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared.
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People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
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