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She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.
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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
Novelist
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Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Seventeen
Shining
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Life
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It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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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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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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None of us are what we once were.
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There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.
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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
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It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
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A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
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How many lost souls do You need, Lord, to satisfy Your hunger? the hatter asked. God, in His infinite silence, looked at him without blinking.
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People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.
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God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.
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Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
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Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills. Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.
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The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.
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We exist as long as somebody remembers us.
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People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
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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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Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.
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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 like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations.
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