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She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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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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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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I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.
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We all give up great expectations along the way.
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There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness.
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I looked up towards the immensity of the labyrinth. How does one choose a single book among so many? Isaac shrugged his shoulders. 'Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person...destiny, in other words.
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[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.
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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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One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.
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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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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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Envy is the religion of the mediocre
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I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.
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There are people you remember and people you dream of.
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The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.
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The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.
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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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Why is it that all wars are won by bankers?
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They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.
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A good father. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A man capable of listening, of leading and respecting a child, and not of drowning his own defects in him. Someone whom a child will not only love because he's his father, but will also admire for the person he is. Someone he would want to grow up to resemble.
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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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